Sunday, August 7, 2011

Android Office Suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF And Other Office Documents On Go

This is one of the best and feature packed Android office suite. This Android office can open commonly used document formats namely DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, TXT, CSV, PDF and ZIP. It supports documents of Microsoft office versions from 97 to 2010. With this powerful app you can access the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Reader documents on go.

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OfficeSuite Pro : As mentioned earlier this Android office application can read commonly used document formats. It also allows you to create new documents or edit existing documents of type DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT and PPTX. With this app on your Android phone you can also open PPS, PPSX, PDF and ZIP documents. It also allows you to open, edit and save TXT and CSV files.

When you launch this application and take care of few initial informative screens then you are presented the following screen.

Android Office Suite - Document Sources
Android Office Suite - Document Sources

Here you can select the location of documents to access. As you can see you can access the office documents stored on internal memory of device, your phones memory card or on cloud. Android office suite provides Google Docs integration where you can keep your documents on cloud.

You can tap “Download dictionaries” option to download the dictionary which can work with this Android office suite. You can quickly look meaning of a word by long pressing a required word while reading MS word documents. You need not download dictionary if you have already installed a dictionary after reading my post : Best Android Dictionary - With Thesaurus, Widget, Over 140,000 Words and Works Offline

Integrated File Browser : When you tap “Memory card” option then you can navigate the folder structures on your phone's SD card to select the folder where your documents are stored. After you select your directory on memory card where your office documents are stored then you can see the documents available in that directory as shown in screenshot below.

Android Office Suite - File Browser
Android Office Suite - File Browser

You can see that Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents in selected folder are displayed with familiar icons. Tap the file which you want to open for reading or editing.

Excel Document Editor : When you tap XLS or XLSX document then it opens in Excel interface of Android Office Suite.

Android Office Suite - Excel Document Editor
Android Office Suite - Excel Document Editor

You can see that it is very similar to look and feel to desktop excel interface. You can tap the worksheet names at the bottom of the screen to see the worksheet that you want. You can tap the cell that you want to edit. Tapping the cell would display that cell’s value in the text box at the top of the screen. You can then modify the value of text box. This interface is very similar to how it works in desktop excel program and hence it can be understood with ease.

You can press the menu button of your Android phone to see the various options that you can perform with excel sheet. You can view sheet or charts, perform cut / copy / paste, format the cells, rows or columns and more.

PowerPoint Document Editor : When you tap PPT, PPTX, PPS or PPSX document then it opens in PowerPoint interface of Android Office Suite.

Android Office Suite - PowerPoint Document Editor
Android Office Suite - PowerPoint Document Editor
You can see that in small screen size of the mobile device you can still see slide as well as it’s notes. You can drag the note header to increase or decrease the space occupied by notes area.

When you tap on slide then controls are displayed as shown in screenshot above. Controls with left and right arrow allows you to navigate to next or previous slide. Controls with magnification glass allow you to zoom in or zoom out the slide. For additional functionality you can press the menu button of your Android phone and it displays the menus available with PowerPoint interface.

Word Document Editor : When you tap DOC or DOCX document then it opens in Word interface of Android Office Suite.

Android Office Suite - Word Document Editor
Android Office Suite - Word Document Editor
As you can see the word interface of office suite automatically fits the text in available width. This makes it easy for you to read the text without need for scrolling or panning it frequently. You can press the menu button of your Android phone where you can find the “Edit” menu. Tapping “Edit” menu allows you to modify the text in word document. After modifications you can save the modified content if you want. You can also perform the search for a specific word using “Find” menu. Get the word count and related statistics of the opened document using “Word count” menu.

Android office suite can display embedded images of format BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF (only for PDF), DIB, WMF/EMF, and PICT. You can also insert images in your word document from image gallery of your phone.

PDF Reader : When you tap PDF document then it opens in PDF reader interface of Android Office Suite.

Android Office Suite - PDF Reader
Android Office Suite - PDF Reader

As shown in screenshot above when you change the orientation of PDF reader then it automatically rotate the view to occupy available screen size. Tapping the screen displays two controls similar to that in PowerPoint interface of office suite. Tap the controls with left and right arrow to navigate to next or previous page in PDF document. Tap controls with magnification glass to zoom in or zoom out the PDF document.

Like all documents explained above you can also open TXT, CSV and ZIP files, with appropriate interface.

You can download this Android office suite from market or app store of your choice. If you liked this app then you may like to check few more wonderful apps from popular sections at right. Keep coming back for more coolest, exciting and best apps for Android.

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