They are machines that we use to create documents, communicate, display media, and play games.
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We need a device that we can use to create documents and spreadsheets and presentations.
Computers routinely operate in a parallel world as they pull up web pages, run email and create documents simultaneously.
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In my tests, I was able to create documents on an iPad in each of the three cloud-based Office programs.
From a frustrating and fiddly experience, you're suddenly given a reasonably powerful word-processing machine with which you can happily create documents.
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Microsoft helped fix that by producing versions of its Office suite that create documents that can move easily from one platform to the other.
You can also create documents from within the browser, letting you work on a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote file directly in your storage space.
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Using Google Apps for Education along with thousands of web apps in the Chrome Web Store, students can easily create documents, edit spreadsheets, view multimedia videos, create slide show presentations and view PDF files.
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Users can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online.
In 2011 France gave common-or-garden lawyers the right to create binding documents similar to those endorsed by notaries.
The slim size still houses a full-sized keyboard, so customers can comfortably create and edit documents and spreadsheets.
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Drive, which gives people a way to create and store documents online, as well as share documents and edit with multiple people.
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We had quite a bit of trouble launching the apps, however, and needed to wipe the iPad and reinstall iOS 5 several times just in order to create a few documents to sync with iCloud.
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You can't create iWork files using the iCloud web interface, but if you've enabled sync on your iOS device, documents you create will appear almost instantly on each app's respective webpage.
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Customers can also access files offline, or create and edit Google Documents and use Gmail offline as well.
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The stylus is a big plus, at least for users who like to jot down notes, create sketches or annotate documents in a way that's much more precise than using a fingertip.
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The New America Foundation analyzed Pentagon reports, news stories, and other publicly available documents to create a list of former detainees who have either joined or are suspected of joining militant groups since their release.
They argued that Peter Madoff, formerly chief compliance officer and senior managing director at his brother's firm, helped to create false and misleading documents to make it seem as though the company had an effective compliance programme.
But I have found they are fine for the basic documents most people create or edit.
Mr Berners-Lee would like to make it easier for users to create their own links to documents.
Having Microsoft Office Mobile built-in means using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from your phone to create, edit and view documents.
The settlement also has required Wall Street firms to devote thousands of hours to track buy, sell and hold ratings for every analyst and create paper trails of signed documents to demonstrate every report contains untainted opinions.
No single person knew the whereabouts of all the documents, in order to create a security firewall.
Now anyone with an iPad or Android tablet can create, review, edit and share documents while on the go.
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According to the SEC, the Quantek hedge fund made loans to affiliates of Guerra and his Bultick Capital Markets Holdings that were not properly documented or secured, leading employees to later re-create the missing related-party loan documents, but misstate important loan terms and backdate materials to cover up the situation.
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Here, you can annotate documents by hand, but not create them with handwriting.
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View pages in color, rotate the display to read documents on your laptop, or create a bookmark to take you to the page where you left off.
And it will demand that its rival create a plan to ensure that no other documents disappear during the course of an antitrust suit that dates back to June 2005.
One email in particular shows that concerns were raised two and a half years ago that any retention of documents on Clinton's part could create controversy.
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