OVERVIEW: Microsoft Office for iOS - a full-fledged office in your pocket

Most recently, Microsoft I cheered all of usMaking a mobile version of Office for free for iOS and Android. We looked at the Office suite, its functions, features, and want to tell you, is there any sense in a full-fledged office in the 4 or 5 inch screen.

In order to be able to create and edit documents, Microsoft will have to register an account. Standard procedure and, of course, absolutely free. After registration we will talk about the advantages of a premium subscription that will not go away. Just now she's just a little bit extends the functionality of the office suite.

In short, buying a subscription will give an opportunity to use Office on your computer, 1 TB space in OneDrive, and you will get additional features for editing documents in Word (insert breaks, change the page orientation, WordArt), Excel (adding colors to shapes, shadows styles) and PowerPoint (view the notes, WordArt). So now buying a premium - it is possible, but not necessarily the solution.

Another innovation in the mobile office has become Dropbox support. Now the most popular cloud can be used for storing documents. Work with Dropbox in Office very convenient, much more convenient than the native OneDrive. The main reason for this is that most of us uses Dropbox as a major cloud storage and long accustomed to his appearance and folder structure.

If you want to open a document in an older version (doc instead of docx), you can not edit it. However, it can literally transform one second, and the new version of the document will remain close to the old or even replace it.

Microsoft has tried to make the mobile office as close to normal. There is the same document templates, tab font and format, as well as detailed information about the document. Naturally, all this is done by the mobile interface, but fully edit files on a 4-inch iPhone - is hell, despite all attempts to make Microsoft Office a complete mobile tool for working with documents.

Work in Excel even harder. I do not want to criticize Microsoft for a bad product (what I am), mobile office turned out great and I think that to make it even better it is hardly possible. But to work with tables, getting a finger on the desired cell in the fifth times uncomfortable. In all Office applications is a strip with buttons at the top, the elements of which vary depending on the application. In Excel, it is full-screen mode, Undo, search and edit the look of the table.

The only thing that did not take away from the mobile Microsoft Office - it's easy to work with him on a plate. I do not know how to Android, but on the iPad, you can use it without any problems and edit documents on the little things too.

Somehow, Microsoft PowerPoint even managed to make quite convenient. I believe that creating a presentation on a smartphone - it is torture, but it is better to have that opportunity, than not have it at all. New presentations can be created for a wide-screen 16: 9 and standard 4: 3.

You can share a presentation to other people by sending them an invite in the mail. Editing slides running loose and no problems.

Separate chips for the regime of the presentation. If you are using your smartphone as a devaysa for a presentation, you can enable long tapom laser pointer mode and the annotation feature allows you to make notes on the slides in real time time.

At this point, Microsoft Office - this is the best office suite for iOS and Android. This is not surprising. Absolutely free, we are able to work with documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in any format. To work with the office on a small screen - not the most convenient occupation, but have it with you just in case you need exactly.