While Microsoft Windows 8 on Surface could ease security concerns and provide direct links to Office apps such as Excel, deVera is skeptical about its chances.
Charles Simonyi is a former Microsoft guru who helped create popular office programs such as Word and Excel.
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.
His next challenge: how to stoke growth in the Office product line--Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint--when his division already has a market share so large (400 million users) that research firms Gartner and IDC don't bother to track it.
An optimized, intuitive touch screen interface allows an accessible and intelligent experience, while users are able to work on the go thanks to ThinkFree mobile office, enabling a variety of Office documents (Word, PPT, Excel and PDF) to be edited from the handset.
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The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
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The latest versions of Office, the software package that includes Word and Excel, enable users to share files and collaborate.
Having Microsoft Office Mobile built-in means using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from your phone to create, edit and view documents.
Ask your office information-technology guru for a lesson in Excel or PowerPoint.
Polaris offers easy viewing and editing of a wide range of Office documents, enabling you to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even PDF files while on-the-move.
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Along with these broader features, there are significant changes to Office 365's programs, which include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access.
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Microsoft Office is sold as a bundle of computer software, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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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.
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.
Microsoft does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
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.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
Eikon links to Excel with one click and will soon be fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite so users can pull data and charts from the system into Word or PowerPoint.
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However, we found ourselves most impressed by the customized versions of ThinkFree Office Mobile, which enable dual-screen viewing and editing of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, plus PDF viewing to boot.
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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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