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Windows Phone 8: Office, OneNote, PDF Reader

2012-10-29
hey there this is Adam Lane for packing.com I'm going to show you something new about Windows Phone 8 let's check it out alright in this video we're gonna take a look at the office hub OneNote and Microsoft's new PDF reader so let's start with the office hub and you see a new logo and we see recent documents we have a different type of icon then we had for the large tile is gone and it says how recently you were using some of these files there's the search you search SkyDrive the phone or your email attachments SharePoint as well and over here we have the places where you might store your documents so SkyDrive email anything that you get an email and open it will show up here and an open anything and there's your SkyDrive of course so let's look at us some of these files is there a sample spreadsheet and we have graphs now pretty nice and it's pretty smooth moving through here it's still a very basic version of Excel but there are some improvements next there's PowerPoint let's go up in that and you'll see yeah it has a portrait support now and we have little thumbnails and we have some pretty nice animations but our artwork so one really cool thing about word is say you're editing something right here and you close it and then you open the same file off of SkyDrive from Word 2013 on desktop or tablet it lets you pick up right where you left off now one thing that's special here that you want to see is if I tap and hold of course I can pin that document to the Start screen if I'm working with a lot you can delete it you can share it or you can save it to so say I received something that I want to upload it to SkyDrive that's pretty easy now and sharing NFC Bluetooth email so you can share documents over NFC now and look at this one this is a PDF I can also email PDFs which is new pray okay let's open that PDF so this is Microsoft's new PDF Reader which we know we had Acrobat Reader on Windows Phone 7.5 from Adobe but look how smooth this is much much smoother usually tap it again to get the menu controls back and you can navigate the bookmarks you can jump to a page rotate it go to next a previous page still pretty simple basic PDF reader but performance is a lot better than previous versions of Acrobat Reader on Windows Phone now what how about in OneNote this is one of my favorite programs let's get back out of here you see it's completely different from the previous version of one now on Windows Phone here's my notebooks I can choose to sync or not think some of them and you can search them and here's your recent list so that's quick access to recent pages and let's go to this one and I'm going to open my test notebook where is it there it is so this is a notebook page that I made which has all sorts of things going on we have embedded documents and I can easily open those and bend a PDF this is a table checkboxes lists everything is supported here's a hyperlink to web page that works fine and here's a hyperlink to another OneNote page now this never worked before on a mobile device but click it from there we go so links within OneNote pages and what is that Inc finally handwritten ink is readable you can't edit it I can probably delete it we can finally read ink that you may have written on a tablet PC there's your test embedded video embedded audio all that works great screen clippings and here's something new that wasn't working before those are diagrams and shape drawings those now work and are visible the only thing that doesn't work is the equation password-protected notebooks are notebook sections also do not work so that's a quick look at Office OneNote and the new microsoft PDF reader on Windows Phone 8 sure to give this video a thumbs up and that's it for now
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