70 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 72
The Office app opens with a list
of ‘recommended’ documents
for you to work on, based
upon your recent history,
presumably. Older documents
can be found further down.
There’s a search box to root
out everything else, as well
as a folder option to open
documents from various places.
If you open a document
authored in Word, you’ll be
able to edit it using the mobile
Word app – ditto for Excel
and PowerPoint. Editing a
document on a mobile phone
takes some experimentation.
You’ll need to realize that the
stylus icon at the top right
opens up editing mode, for
example, as opposed to scrawling e-ink on the top of
the document. Editing blocks of test requires a ‘long
press’ to select it. And, of course, there’s really no way
to hover over an icon and see what it does, so you’ll
sometimes have to experiment and then use the back
button to undo a mistake.
Tapping the ‘+’ button in the lower centre of
the screen reveals that you can add a Sticky Note
(that should sync with Windows 10), author a new
