Image Gallery: Quickoffice brings Office document support to the iPhone

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    Quickoffice has been around for years and is the default Office suite found on Nokia S60 devices. They too this expertise and created a functional iPhone client. The current version does has a few issues that should be fixed with a future update, but it is worth the $20 if you need to work with Office documents on your iPhone device. They now have clients for Palm, BlackBerry, and Android devices too.

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    There is a nice icon for the application and things start off well on the iPhone.

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    You can get file onto your device via WiFi or MobileMe and access locally stored files.

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    You need to be connected with your computer to the same WiFi network as your iPhone to transfer files.

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    After connecting as directed in Firefox, this is the interface you will see to manage files.

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    You use this simple interface to get files to your iPhone.

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    The highlighted items show the files that were most recently updated on your iPhone.

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    When you click a file in your web browser, this is the type of info you will see appear.

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    As files are transferred to your iPhone their status will appear on the display.

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    You can access your files wirelessly and also create public folders to put documents up on.

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    The tools page is accessed from the main display.

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    This view shows the documents on your iPhone with icons indicating the type of document each one is.

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    You can create folders and organize your documents just like you want.

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    Another view of the organizational capabilities.

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    A couple of seconds go by as the document loads on your iPhone.

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    Quickoffice has also done a fantastic job of keeping document formatting intact and that will be a major aspect to check out in a further evaluation.

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    Quickoffice supports all the basic editing capabilities you need to get the job done.

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    The formatting options appear in a toolbar on the bottom in portrait mode.

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    Quickoffice added some of their own functionality and one thing is you now zoom into a larger part of the document rather than just a couple words.

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    A double tap on a word turns on the bars that you can then drag around. Triple tap selects the entire paragraph.

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    Highlights, font formats, and more are supported.

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    Several font types and sizes are supported in Quickoffice.

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    For some reason the predictive text does not work in Quickword and the Shift key turns Caps Lock on every time.

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    When you switch to landscape mode the menu items disappear and the program switches into full screen mode. The keyboard works in a wider form factor too.

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    Selections can be made in landscape mode.

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    Bold, italic, font color, highlight, and font format are supported in Quickoffice.

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    You can create new Excel spreadsheets or edit existing ones.

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    There are a few options to format your cells in Quicksheet.

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    You can change the font color and background color into a scheme that you like.

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    There are plenty of number formatting options in Quickoffice.

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    After selecting a type to format you then can refine the format you wish to use.

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    Quicksheet seems to be much more powerful than Quickword at this time.

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    All the basic formatting features you want are supported.

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    You can tap and hold to resize columns with the large arrows confirming the selection.

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    Rows can be resized just like columns.

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    There are plenty of categories for you to calculate what you need.

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    After selecting a category you can get into more settings for the function.

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    All menus disappear and landscape is more useful for viewing needs.

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    You can undo and redo throughout Quickoffice.

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    Multiple sheets are supported in Quickoffice.

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    Dynamic pinch zooming is supported in Quickoffice.

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    You can zoom out to see more of the spreadsheet too.

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    Colors and fonts can be used to highlight your document.

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    Thankfully the keyboard's predictive features work in the spreadsheet application.

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    PDF documents are supported too.

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    PDF documents can be viewed in landscape or portrait.

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Quickoffice has been around for years and is the default Office suite found on Nokia S60 devices. They too this expertise and created a functional iPhone client. The current version does has a few issues that should be fixed with a future update, but it is worth the $20 if you need to work with Office documents on your iPhone device. They now have clients for Palm, BlackBerry, and Android devices too.

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Quickoffice has been around for years and is the default Office suite found on Nokia S60 devices. They too this expertise and created a functional iPhone client. The current version does has a few issues that should be fixed with a future update, but it is worth the $20 if you need to work with Office documents on your iPhone device. They now have clients for Palm, BlackBerry, and Android devices too.

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