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hey guys ashley with TechnoBuffalo here i have had a very long week at e3 but i did get to spend time today back in the office with microsoft office for iOS it's new it's exciting but it's also a little bit basic so let's take a look at how straightforward Microsoft Office for iOS is so here it is Office Mobile we have the icon here ready to go it's iOS ready and here is our office when you open this for the first time you'll actually be prompted to log in with your office 365 account which we've already done and now we have a few different things so these three demos are on SkyDrive so they're available to us to check out and then we also have some sample documents available by default in office for iOS so let's let's take a look at everything so if we have a word document you can see that's something open it's got images you can actually comment on things if you want if you hit the edit button here you're now able to edit so if I wanted to change anything I could do that but if not that's okay but nice collaboration you can comment on things so you can make notes which is always a nice thing to have when you are collaborating on a document and if you want to go to outline view or find something you just tap on that eyeball there and of course if we want to share save or save as we want to make a duplicate we can do that in the file options but pretty basic not a whole lot going on in terms of extra functionality I mean you're not going to have a full formatting table here which is a little frustrating you can of course save changes cancel whatever you want to do we'll just save them and get out of here so here's the save screen and you can name it whatever you want and once we hit done it will connect us back to the main page of Office for iOS and you'll see it'll start refreshing and then here's our file right here so it's downloaded from SkyDrive right now but we wanted to remove it from our device we could just do that and now it will go away which is always very very nice if you don't want any clutter here is the Excel spreadsheet this is the sample that we have you can see you can zoom out if you want to get a better view of what's going on of course you have your different tabs here all the same stuff that you would see inside Excel for desktop just a little bit more compact so here are some different options available to us on editing tools you can format you can do an autosum if you're doing something that has to do with math like an invoice and also you have viewing tools you can sort your different columns you can apply filter find all that great stuff and of course our file options share save save as we haven't really changed anything so hopefully it won't ask us if you want to save yeah great and now lastly there is PowerPoint sample presentation so here it is right here you can actually swipe through and look at the different slides and what the notes are on them if you'd like to add notes you can do that just by tapping it's really simple you can also see a full zoomed out view of all of your slides you can go to any particular slide you can edit you can move a slide hide a slide or edit the slide text this one doesn't have text these are graphics right here but if it did you would be able to do that if we go to the one previously should be able to edit the text here so here's the text very simple unfortunately it doesn't look like you can control transitions or anything like that inside this particular editing of the sample presentation if we wanted to make a new document we could do Word or Excel but you'll notice no PowerPoint so you cannot actually create a PowerPoint document or presentation from iOS which is kind of a bummer but honestly I think if you're using PowerPoint for presentation you probably wouldn't want to make a full presentation on your phone but it is nice to be able to just go in and edit those presentations they also have some templates available agenda outline room report and then on Excel budget event schedule and mileage tracker making it really easy to do something that if you want to share something that's a little bit more used very often so here's our settings really basic you can reset it help and support about Terms of Service privacy and improve office that's it there's not a whole lot of stuff going on here it's pretty basic but generally speaking it is really nice to be able to collaborate with office and office 365 so if you have an office that uses Microsoft and the office suite this can come in very handy and I'll be checking it out a little bit more to see if there are any deeper options but as of right now it doesn't quite look like there's much more to it than that so that is Microsoft Office for iOS it's pretty straightforward pretty simple but also pretty useful if you use the office suite you