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Use full MS Office on your Android
Get the power of Microsoft Office on your device and link it to a cloud service
Although there are great word processors
out there for Android, having the familiarity
and flexibility of features of Microsoft
Office is hard to beat for those who work
with it on a daily basis on a desktop or
laptop computer. CloudOn, an app which
can be downloaded for free from Google
Play, lets you access the power of Microsoft
Office on your Android device. What it also
does is enable you to save your files to the
cloud using one of four existing services:
Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Box.
You are also able to pull documents from
any of these services and edit them on your
device before making notes and saving them
back. The app also lets you open up other
CloudOn View and edit Office files
file types as well, including images and PDFs
using the built-in File Viewer and Adobe
Reader. CloudOn doesn’t only cater for word
processed documents. It also lets you use
Excel and PowerPoint to create, review and
edit spreadsheets and presentations. There
are facilities for renaming files and sharing
them as links or attachments via email.
1: Sign up to CloudOn
After downloading it from the Play Store,
when you open CloudOn, it will ask you to
sign in or create an account. We’re assuming
you don’t have an account so tap the latter
and then select a storage account from either
SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or Box.
2: Seeing your files
With access to one or more of your cloud
services, you can begin to view files. Other
storage options can be accessed by tapping
and signing in. Tap the storage account where
the document you want to access is located.
We’re using Google Drive.
3: Choose a document
A list of the documents in your chosen
storage account is listed. By the side of
each, you will see the file type, for
example Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader.
Tap on the file that you want to access and it
will be opened.
4: Get editing
Now you will see a familiar word processing
layout. Across a bar at the top of the screen
there is a series of menus. Tap one of these
and icons appear underneath offering various
functions such as bold, italics or pie charts
and so on.
5: Using the keyboard
When you tap anywhere within the text,
the keyboard will appear and you can make
amendments that will then be saved to your
cloud storage facility. You can add a note
about your amendment and editing times are
also shown.
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