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hey guys it's brandon mini myth from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to take a look at the Microsoft Office hub in Windows Phone 7 series Microsoft Office is a very important product to Microsoft and obviously they want to have a really good office experience on Windows Phone 7 series devices we've been questioning sort of how the interface will look because the Metro interface is not really conducive to sort of creating content you're going to see what I mean in a second and we'll see how Microsoft has addressed this let's let's start off in the Microsoft Office hub which is of course where you come to be productive so we can swipe to the right to see the different panels we have a quick link right to sharepoint and you'll be able to see all of the files that reside on a sharepoint server very easy if you know your coworkers are editing documents and you want the latest version you can pull it down from the cloud quite easily going to the right we see Microsoft OneNote talk about that in a moment and to the right we have Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word let's talk about both of those and how they've been changed since windows mobile the legacy version let's start off in word so we're going to type we're going to go into a new document quite simply we get a blank screen here so I can say hello everyone and there's a few things I can do there's a lot of things I can do the first thing I can do is click on this little color wheel here first I want to select a word I click on this color wheel and I get a variety of formatting options obviously this is going to be spruced up a lot when when windows phone 7 Series is released let's make it bold for now so quite simply it's bold let's change the color to say sort of read their simple edits another thing that is new with Windows Phone 7 series and word is commenting features typical scenario is your coworker or your your friends send you a microsoft office document you want to add some comments you can't do that in windows mobile right now but in but in this version of a word you can so we select the word we go down here to this commenting feature and we say this looks good and then what you can do is sort of click out of it and now you can see that it is has a little speech bubble around it so presumably when somebody gets this file on their desktop it will integrate with words commenting features though a lot of people use so very cool there we can press the eye to get some information although some things don't work we're going to try to go back we can expand the application bar to do other things we can undo redo find basic stuff we can send right from microsoft word which is really great so that quickly you can send this to a friend after you've made changes you don't have to go into your email application and attach you can do it right from here we can do new open save as things like that we can also go to personalize and you can set a profile for certain users apparently you can have multiple users on the device doesn't really make sense and right here you get a little bit more elaboration on the commenting feature so let's go back into the application bar see if there's anything we missed of course we can save this as a file called hello everyone and there is so let's go back to the office hub so you just saw word let's look at Excel a big problem with Excel mobile on current windows mobile devices that looking at a big spreadsheet is so difficult you various zoom levels but it's not easy to sort of see an overview of the spreadsheet on a small screen we still don't know how microsoft plans to remedy this this is a very early build it also doesn't have I can't use multi touch on it obviously I'm not on the touch screen device right now but we can play around with some of the features now you can see these these icons down here are very ugly this version is nowhere near complete but we can use it we can do something like name over here and your age and we can input some things in there let you know Bob age 25 and some things get a little bit wacky as you can see there's some things we can do here we can hit this button which will actually let us switch between different worksheets quite handy click the back button this one will create a new spreadsheet this one will find see what else we can do here we can sort so let's select see if we can select let's make a column with several different numbers and see if we can sort them all right so I'm going to try to highlight these it may not work too well okay I'm just going to select column C maybe that'll do it and then we get a sort button here which is pretty cool so this is actually a format option not a sort so I'm going to go back let's do sort a to z sort options column C sort order descending ascending more options okay so we can change the sort order some more advanced stuff than you then we've come to to know we can go to format cell so we can click on a cell see this type of format options that we can have so we saw this before we can make a chart we can change the font color very basic options but then again you're not going to want to build out a full spreadsheet on your on your mobile device you're just going to want to do sort of basic edits let's see what else we can do here we actually have a file menu which is really strange so this is not congruent with what we saw in word there was no file menu so again they're really working on this trying to get it right and from here we can open we can send it we can save it as something and you get the idea from their very basic Excel it's still not quite what we pictured in terms of a robust mobile Excel client let's go to the next thing we're gonna hit the back button to get back to the office hub and let's go to OneNote mobile a lot of people use one note on current windows mobile devices it syncs very well with one note on the desktop so if you take notes in class we're in a meeting you can sync everything right to your phone so I can add a new note and it says I can't sink it's not set up and I can just type here you know you well and you know it hello and then I can click the back button that will actually should save it yep there it is and then we get the Metro interface to pan around and access the different sort of content so here are all the pages that i have and i can also go to the notebooks which is which are really compilations of pages to help organize them and we can click around in some of these things we can mail it quickly wrap the text we can edit it and from this edit screen we can record a voice note take a picture you know stuff that we did see in the windows mobile version of OneNote just a different interface and hopefully they build in some some better features so let's go back more time to the hub we still have to look at Power Point which you may be disappointed by for now in PowerPoint you are never able to make presentations which kind of makes sense because most people aren't going to make a presentation on their phone they're just going to look at it well sadly so far in PowerPoint mobile for windows phone 7 series you can only view powerpoint presentations you can't make them it would be nice to have the capability in case you know you only have your phone and you need to get the presentation ready for Monday but it doesn't look like we are getting met so that was just an early look at microsoft office on windows phone 7 Series it has a long way to come it shows some promise in giving some more features that we didn't have in the windows mobile version which hasn't changed in 10 years but we'll keep an eye on this and we'll post more about this as soon as there's something new to talk about be sure to subscribe to our video channel at youtube.com slash pocket mal video to see all the latest Windows Phone 7 series videos that's it for now