"We're taking great focus and great care to make sure Office for every device shines through." "Job one is to empower people to be productive - to do more across all devices," Nadella said. He repeatedly emphasised the mantra of "a cloud for everyone on every device", although support for Office on Android devices was conspicuous by its absence. Nadella's first appearance in front of the press was reasonably brief, and offered little in the way of long-term strategy. The apps will be available for download today. PowerPoint has all the themes included in the PC version, and has features designed specifically for those making presentations from their iPad, such as a virtual laser pointer that the presenter can move by poking the screen.
In Excel, features such as Sparklines and suggested graphs are retained, and there's a special numeric keyboard for entering data and equations. Photos can be dragged and dropped into new positions, with text automatically reflowing around the images. Word for iPad includes facilities such as threaded comments and tracked changes, and allows users to edit charts and graphs embedded into documents. Microsoft says it has designed the apps from the ground-up for the iPad: they're not a simple port of the iPhone apps.Īll of the apps retain the familiar Ribbon interface, although the number of tabs and features is necessarily reduced from the PC version of Office. The apps effectively become readers for those who don't subscribe. Like the company's apps for iPhone, Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be free, but only Office 365 subscribers will have the facility to edit documents.
Satya Nadella has used his debut Microsoft press conference to unveil Office for iPad.
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