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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones

Tech Soup

Too bad it’s so hard to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files on them – or is it? All of them view office documents including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on various types of smartphones, but to varying degrees of effectiveness. View help files (launches web browser to help site).

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) The presentation package isn’t quite as polished as PowerPoint, although you can do most of what you can do with PP. It is the only fully cross-platform office suite with pretty much the same functionality and interface independent of platform.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Google Drive Mobile is a free app for viewing and editing Google Docs on an Android phone or tablet. OfficeSuite Pro is another popular $10 app that allows you to view, create, edit, print and share Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. It is a collection of three apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

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Why Upgrade to Office 2013? 4 Compelling Features You'll Want to Know

Tech Soup

variety of new rich media options to make your documents, presentations, and other files more interactive and engaging. PowerPoint, you can find and add photos from albums on Flickr, Facebook, and other online services without saving to your computer. PDF to Word Doc Capabilities. converting PDF files to Word format.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Outlook 2010

Tech Soup

Check out our posts on Word , PowerPoint , and Excel. One handy feature of Outlook 2010 is the ability to preview attachments (PDFs, Word docs, and so on) within the email itself. You need to start by downloading and installing the files required by the social networks that you want to use. Creating Folders.

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OutLook Addict Seeks Gmail Rehab Program.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why is that I could easily make the switch from PowerPoint to SlideShare -- from Word to Google Docs from Excel to Google Spreadsheets? In Outlook, I have extensive folder file system with accompanying rules. But why can't shift from Outlook to gmail? Would I never reap the full benefit of the social life of office documents ?

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