ISSUE 72 • ANDROID ADVISOR 73Word app within the mobile
Office application should be
useful. Naturally, accuracy
will depend on how well
the phone understands
you; even Sampathkumar’s
own demo wasn’t perfect,
and you’ll still need to edit
punctuation anyway.
He also demonstrated how
a PowerPoint presentation
could be made on the fly
by typing a bulleted outline
across several slides within
PowerPoint. By relying on
Microsoft’s own designer
services for background, themes, and other niceties,
a marketer on the go can create a fairly rich slide
deck just from the back of a cab.
The third upcoming feature, the Excel ‘card view’,
appears to be equally useful, if a bit nonintuitive.
Because of the limited screen space on a phone, all
of the information stored in an Excel spreadsheet
row usually isn’t visible. Card view helps solve that by
placing all of the row as a series of editable ‘cards’ that
The ‘More actions’ menu hides
a wealth of rather convenient
utility functions, including the
ability to scan images as a PDF
and then later add a signature