Office Mobile 2010 - Beta
 

Just saw this in another forum (Modaco, posted by necosino)

"Microsoft Office 2010 and Office Mobile 2010 was just released an hour ago, tools you use every day at work, home, or school, to the screen of your Windows phone with rich interfaces especially designed for small devices. you can download the free beta from the following *Beta Download Link

Features:
-View and edit your Microsoft® Office® documents with confidence.
-Stay connected to work from anywhere with SharePoint Workspace Mobile.
-Stay connected to work from anywhere with SharePoint Workspace Mobile.
-Use PowerPoint Mobile as a presentation aid.



*Beta available immediately for the US market and will be rolled out to the international market later. Only available for Windows Mobile 6.5 and touch screen devices only for this beta. Final version will include for non-touch screen devices. "

http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/...ffice%25202010

Sign in, "Purchase" the app, then log onto Marketplace on your phone and it will be listed under "My apps" -> "Ready to Install"

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I wonder if it replaces the offce thats already on our devices? or is it a seperate app? anyone gonna try? :)

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Just installed and resetting. I think it does replace the original, but I can't say for sure, my ROM doesn't have it cooked in.

I'll report back on how it works!!

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It replaced the office I had installed on my win 6.5 cooked rom. The one thing I noticed you can now scroll in excel.

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I think most of the improvements are minor things like the scrolling neuteboomt mentioned, it works nicely, nothing earth-shattering, but it does work. I would like a bit more of the 'finger-friendly' feel MS is starting to adapt, but it is OK.

I have tried Sharepoint...not quite sure what a Sharepoint site is though.

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Its great that Microsoft is keeping up with the Desktop.

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I was hoping to track down where/if a CAB was downloaded to the phone, but I can't find one...any ideas?

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Found a cab form over on XDA.

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GREAT!!!! Thanks for posting it. Do you know if it has storage area-installation available?

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this dates out in april 2010 - then you will have to buy it? or it seems if your phone came preloaded you wont ? do custom roms with it loaded count as pre loaded or will we lose it in april ??? my phone rom came preloaded and my custom rom had it built in - confusing

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It should come as a free update when it goes gold. It dates out because they don't want people using Beta's forever for more than 1 reason.

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From the description, I think that even though this is labeled as beta, that it is not something that you need to renew, or will expire, and I think the final (that may change, but right now the only thing I can see that may change is the non touch-screen version.

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syrguy,

Sharepoint is a MS product that they use as like a company website that you can configure to have as your one stop shop for all of your work related documents, updates, calendars and things like that. Some have made them external facing for their customers to use, but from my experience they are internal sites used to create a centralized location for information.

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Thanks for the info kuluminati..I have been trying to read a bit about it, and eventhough it doesn't look like anything I will use, it does look pretty cool for the real 'power-users'!!!!

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it has its pros and cons like everything else. For end users in a large organization it would be great.. For the things they need all users to see and what not. I have actually been using Sharepoint for something around 4 years now. It has come a long way from when it first started thats for sure.

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I'm simply happy that "large" (~200k+) word documents open WAAAY faster.
That's reason enough for me.

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Just my 2 cents on a cool new feature.

One of the new features of Office 10 beta is Powerpoint Companion.
Basically your Winmo device becomes a portable wireless (via bluetooth) presenter. Not only can you control the PP presentation, you can set it up so that the Notes slides appear on your handheld simultaneously.
I've been waiting for something like this for a LOOOOONG time!

For those who do Powerpoint presentations, it definitely is worth checking out. BTW, you don't have to upgrade to Office 10 beta on your PC. It works with PowerPoint 2007. I tried it and it seems to work well. I'll follow up when I actually use it in a work setting.

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This looks cool.
If this screenshot is of WM6.5, then it must be the com 2 branch.

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Has anyone tried the the OneNote multiple folder/cloud syncing yet? I'm a Onenote junkie, and this will be a HUGE benefit (...if it works well).

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Hm. Unfortunately, that zapped my Mobile version of OneNote... Thanks for posting it, though--I'll keep looking...

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Will the cab included here install on a WM 6.1 phone? (Or only 6.5?)

Is OneNote mobile much improved in this 2010 version? So far, I have not used OneNote because, although the desktop version looks cool, the mobile version (for instance, the version that comes on my WM 6.1 phone) is sorely lacking. For instance, you cannot sync all your notebooks to it, but only the special "mobile notebook". And--no possibility of note encryption in OneNote Mobile 2007, which to me is a dealbreaker. (I use phatnotes, which has encryption.) Has that been remedied in OneNote Mobile 2010?