Mr. Pichai also said that people will be able to use the touch screen to work on documents created by Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel.

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I've never run the Mac version of Microsoft Office and am a bit nervous about seamless compatibility with Windows versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

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Charles Simonyi is a former Microsoft guru who helped create popular office programs such as Word and Excel.

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Having Microsoft Office Mobile built-in means using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from your phone to create, edit and view documents.

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Microsoft Office is sold as a bundle of computer software, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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As for office management software, Microsoft Office Small Business--with its suite of tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook--is still the standard.

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Microsoft says that Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which contains new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, will be included on ARM-based Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface.

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While we don't do lab tests, in our real office tests of transferring Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Word and Excel files, the machines equipped with Airport Extreme cards clearly outpaced those using the older ones.

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