Windows Phone 7: Success! (as far as mobile office is concerned at least)

For those of you who have been using Windows mobile for awhile, get ready to learn it all again.

The new Windows mobile operating system is a completely clean slate, especially the new mobile office layout. Documents now appear as if they were being viewed on a PC and the phone comes with an office icon on the home screen  giving you quick access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files.


When the home screen locks after a period of dormancy, your next appointment is shown on the bottom as are the number of unread e-mails and missed calls.

A large app bar appears at the bottom of Office screens offering navigation tools relevant to the open file. A predictive keyboard allows you to type relatively quickly. The phone will make an educated guess at the word you want based on the context but if it gets it wrong, a list of other suggested words appears in a small bar.


When you open an Excel spreadsheet, it maintains much of the look of the original file, including graphs and other features. The same is true of PowerPoint files, which retain most of their animation, audio and other features. Word Mobile supports the table of contents, thus making it easier to navigate long documents

On the whole the Office experience is cleaner and faster, and more compatible with the files generated by Office 2010 applications. A great improvement on previous versions.


However it is not without its faults. A glaring omission on Windows Phone 7 is cut and paste, an oversight Microsoft representatives said would be corrected in early 2011 with an over-the-air update. 


Once the cut and paste problem is fixed the office component of the Windows Phone 7 is sure to be an industry leader.