RaduTyrsina
News Team
Microsoft has issued a refresh to its mobile office programs on the App Store: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The apps have been updated with on-the-go comment editing, file renaming, quickly jumping to a page and much more. This is quite a big update, so here are all the new features that have been made available:
Word for iOS
- Fonts when you need them: Are you missing fonts in a document? Word automatically downloads them when you need them.
- Quickly jump to a page: Long document? Navigate to a specific page — fast! Scroll, hold and drag to go directly to the page you need.
- Rename a file: Everyone likes a do-over! Now you can name a Word doc directly from the Open or Recent tab.
- Bi-directional and complex script languages: now supports bi-directional text editing and complex script for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai.
- View protected documents: open and view documents that have access permissions applied to them.
- Easier sharing: invite people to edit a document and grant them permissions, all from within the app.
- Integration with Outlook: edit a document attached to an Outlook email message. When you’ve finished, the updated document will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.
- New storage options: open, edit and save your work to iCloud and other online storage services. (requires iOS 8)
- New templates: create great-looking Word documents more quickly by using one of the new templates.
- Word Add-ins: add functionality to Word that enhance your documents and helps increase your productivity. (only on iPad, requires iOS 8.2 or newer)
- Add and edit comments: You’ve got something to say. Now that’s easier to do, because you can create and edit comments in Excel on iPad.
- All comments in one place: Seeing is believing. View everyone’s comments in the new Comments task pane on iPad.
- Rename a file: Everyone likes a do-over! Now you can name an Excel spreadsheet directly from the Open or Recent tab.
- Bi-directional and complex script languages: now supports bi-directional text editing and complex script for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai.
- View protected documents: open and view documents that have access permissions applied to them.
- Easier sharing: invite people to edit a document and grant them permissions, all from within the app.
- Integration with Outlook: edit a spreadsheet attached to an Outlook email message. When you’ve finished, the updated spreadsheet will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.
- New storage options: open, edit and save your work to iCloud and other online storage services. (requires iOS 8)
- Fonts when you need them: Are you missing fonts in a document? PowerPoint automatically downloads them when you need them.
- Rename a file: Everyone likes a do-over! Now you can name a PowerPoint presentation directly from the Open or Recent tab.
- Bi-directional and complex script languages: now supports bi-directional text editing and complex script for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai.
- View protected documents: open and view documents that have access permissions applied to them.
- Easier sharing: invite people to edit a document and grant them permissions, all from within the app.
- Integration with Outlook: edit a presentation attached to an Outlook email message. When you’ve finished, the updated presentation will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.
- New storage options: open, edit and save your work to iCloud and other online storage services. (requires iOS 8)
- Change Slide layout: make your content pop by changing the layout of your slide.
- Insert from camera: insert pictures and videos from the camera right into your presentation.
Source: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
