But when these apps arrive at the end of the month, it'll be our first real taste of what our computing life with Windows 10 And Microsoft has made mobile versions of Office available for Android and iOS devices. This isn't entirely new we got our first glimpse of the finger-friendly versions of Office for Windows PCs back in February, when preview versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint were first made available in the Windows 10

I wouldn't recommend using Excel on a phone, but you can. But you'll have most of Office's toolbox at your fingertips, which will be a powerful tool for the busy mobile professional. You'll probably want to, as I certainly didn't enjoy creating a quick-and-dirty spreadsheet on a smartphone. Tapping out long documents on a smartphone display will never be a great experience, but these universal apps mean you won't be missing out on key Office features, or forced to break out a laptop when you want to edit a document. My time with the new Office for Windows phone was admittedly short, but it's clear that it's designed, as Spataro explained, for 'On the Go' productivity. You can tweak things to your liking, too, and adjustments like changing the size of the text won't affect the original document. Mobile websites, apps like Pocket, and Windows 8's own Reading mode have all but conditioned many of us to see documents not as sheets of paper, but as flowing text. I remarked that it looks and feels just like the web, and Spataro nodded - that's entirely the point. Double-click on an image or chart and it enlarges so you can appreciate the details. That might mean ditching the archaic 'sheet of paper' metaphor in favor of streamlined text - or columns of text, if you're on a tablet - interspersed with images and the like.

The upcoming versions of Word offer a new Reading mode: press it and all of the elements of the document you're reading are 'reflowed' to fit your device. Most of us aren't printing quite as much as we used to, and the documents we are creating are getting a lot more complex: images, tables, and charts dotted about are commonplace. In reading mode, Word documents look like web pages. , Microsoft is taking pains to address areas the company has historically neglected: mobile devices, like tablets and smartphones. During the demo, Spataro showed Word running on a Nokia Lumia 1520, which he admits is a rather cramped place for writing and editing documents. 'Documents are a relic of when people printed things out' says Jared Spataro, the general manager of Office Marketing at Microsoft. Is set to officially launch sometime this summer. Technical Preview for Windows phones in late April and will offer a taste of Office 2016, and yet another glimpse at Microsoft's plans to make Windows 10 Microsoft is bringing previews of its universal Office apps - Word, Excel and Powerpoint - to Windows smartphones. Microsoft Word, running on a Nokia Lumia 1520.

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