Gadgetory

we're excited to be announcing Office for iPad today more specifically Word Excel and PowerPoint available immediately for download in the iPad app store all there in the iPad with a design that is both familiar to them as an office user but also very natural for an iPad user what we're looking at right here is a Lenovo Windows laptop this is the office experience of people are familiar with fell in love I'm just going to open a document on this you get that beautiful office document it's opening it off onedrive this is the free cloud storage for everyone I've got this great document right here and I can scroll through it's beautiful it's got all sorts of comments and immersive content charts in this case I'm actually going to insert an image this is a document wrap about music so I'm gonna insert an image and I'm an insert right off the web I can do that I can insert just from clipart or in this case Bing so let me just do a quick search for an image about music see if I find something good yeah there's a image right there where music that's pretty straightforward so there it is now I got it that's that's an experience people are used to that's the experience they've come to come to know with office but if I've got to leave the office I've got to run out of my house and I want to pick up where I left off I can do that now with word for iPad so in this case I open word for iPad I've got a list of the most recent documents that I've used right there in onedrive and there's that first document that I just was changing over here on my Windows PC there it is and I can see there's that image I just inserted I maybe I don't like the way it looks maybe I want to modify how the text wraps around it maybe I want to move it maybe when I get allure maybe I want to drag it around and put it in a different place in the document to where I like and there we go just like that I've managed to extend my office experience the iPad with a rich and immersive word for iPad experience any limitations on the tablet format and on ipad we really focused on building and experience in the ground up that's designed for the iPad so we focused on the scenarios we think are most practical most important for users we did a bunch of testing to make sure we address the things that are the most common things people want to do on this device and that extends to Word Excel and PowerPoint and the fact let me show you excel in this case you know the first thing you'll notice is this is Excel it's take ibly office it looks and feels like the Excel people who have come to know I've got rich content charts and graphs I can do things like change my charts maybe I think this thing should be a pie chart instead of a bar chart you can see I'm seeing live previews of the different ways this data might look I might want to change the color scheme maybe I don't like that color like this color scheme now I can I can change the style if I want to background it differently really easy really touch-friendly just write a touch first experience build for the iPad but still the Excel that people are used to and one of the things that in excels case that we did in particulars we actually even gone so far as to build a custom keyboard for Excel users it's super natural to use I was going to ask about that because so often when you're using office products Microsoft Word or Excel you're typing a lot and that can be a little difficult difficult on that typical iPad keyboard this is an example of how we built this experience for the iPad explicitly so this keyboard really enables you to do some of the things that on a Windows PC you do with a keyboard and mouse like keystroke commands are starting formulas so that you can easily do sums and averages and such so but built just for this experience and you've got sort of the number pad absolutely figuration over here on the right no medications absolutely okay and then PowerPoint is is the same a very rich immersive document experience all the beauty that you've come to expect from PowerPoint but touch fit friendly experiences like being able to move my slides around just by dragging them down within the document and putting them where I want to put them I can also add transitions the the sexy transitions that people have come to expect like things like crumpling paper and and things like the origami fold up and then I can of course because this is PowerPoint powerpoints about presentation it's about presenting confidently so I can always go in and do my presentation walk into a room start my presentation get those great transitions and animations swipe to move forward you see that my transitions my builds come through you can even swipe backwards believe it or not and watch that our gommi bird come back where it's through the of through the room and in order to present confidently you really want to have extra tools like being able to tap and hold and get a laser pointer so that people can see where your focus area is perhaps you want to go in and and draw some ink on the screen so you can say hey what I'm talking about is this I'm talking about this point right here maybe I want to pick up a highlighter and highlight the thing that I want to focus on a really rich presentation tools that let you just present super confidently with PowerPoint all three apps really build with touch in mind from the ground up for iPad users