But the previews were often flawed, unclear jumbles of text, especially with Word documents.
One particularly troubling possibility (not yet confirmed) is that the virus may randomly send your own Word documents to others.
The shared family computer contains a lot of stuff that is mine, including music, Word documents, and photos.
Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) for infringing its patent on attaching XML language to Word documents.
Her requests have been criticized as rambling in nearly 100, 000-word documents containing language of personal invective that shocked legal experts and veterans of his courtroom.
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E-mails were mixed up with Word documents and cached Internet files.
Users will no longer need to care whether the stuff they are looking for is on the web, in their e-mail, or in their Word documents.
Take the People Hub that seamlessly manages your contacts and your social life, or the in-built Office Hub that makes writing Word documents or managing spreadsheets really easy.
PCs are turning into crowded repositories of family photographs, songs and e-mails alongside word documents and spreadsheets, and point to locations on their own hard disks as well as to computers far away.
Where Microsoft stands to loose the most ground is not with the consumers of today but with younger generations using iPads instead of laptops and writing notes via social networking sites instead of Word documents.
Still, after she noticed one home-based employee's output lagging for several months, the program enabled her to see that the employee was spending a lot of time writing Word documents, something not required for her job.
Once it arrived, we used the touchscreen to zoom in and scroll across the document -- handy features for those who need to read word documents on the go, but don't want to rely on their tiny phone screen.
For example, you might choose Microsoft Word for documents, JPEGs for photos and Microsoft Powerpoint for presentations.
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Word can also convert PDF documents into Word format so that you can make changes more easily.
Uniquely, users can also write a post in Microsoft Word or Google Documents and then import it into their blog.
Where iRex shines isn't in book-formatted text, but in the no-nonsense business and legal documents: Word, HTML and above all, PDFs.
Customers can email spreadsheets, PDFs, Word docs and other documents directly to their Kindle Fire, or upload documents from their PC or Mac using Amazon Cloud Drive.
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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Now the iconic cartoon-maker is trying to get the case thrown out on the grounds that Slesinger had stolen confidential documents, rifling through rubbish within Disney offices and taking the word "confidential" off the documents it found.
For the European Commission, it means a lot more references to the word growth in Brussels policy documents - and a lot of new European infrastructure projects which might well take years to get off the ground.
The Oxford English Dictionary documents how the word "rabid" found similar purchase in English during the 17th century, as a term of illness but also as a wrenching state of agitation: "rabid with anguish" (1621), "rabid Griefe" (1646).
While there are plenty of third-party apps that can handle Office documents, release of the official apps is likely to be of great interest to those who work a lot with Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents when out and about.
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The problem is particularly acute with documents prepared using Microsoft Word because of the way it maintains hidden records about editing changes.
Corporate investigators have programs that can sift through e-mail and other electronic documents looking for distinctive word patterns, even when employees try to speak in code.
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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For documents, Dropbox is adding a feature called Documents Preview that enables people to view the documents such as PDFs or Word files on the Dropbox website.
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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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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Word mobile, PowerPoint mobile, Excel mobile to manage documents, and OneNote mobile to capture notes, ideas, pictures and voice memos make working on the go easier.
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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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