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History

Original icon set of Office Mobile

Office Mobile originally shipped as "Pocket Office", and was released by Microsoft with the Pocket PC 2000 operating system in April of 2000. This release was specifically for the Pocket PC hardware platform, as Microsoft's Smartphone hardware specification had not yet been released. It consisted of Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, and Pocket Outlook. With steady updates throughout subsequent releases of Windows Mobile, Office Mobile was rebranded as its current name after the release of the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. This release of Office Mobile also included PowerPoint Mobile for the first time. Accompanying the release of Microsoft OneNote 2007, a new optional addition to the Office Mobile line of programs was released as OneNote Mobile. With the release of Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Office Mobile became available for the Smartphone hardware platform, however unlike Office Mobile for the Professional and Classic versions of Windows Mobile, creation of new documents is not an added feature. A popular workaround is to create a new blank document in a desktop version of Office, synchronize it to the device, and then edit and save on the Windows Mobile device.

In June 2007, Microsoft announced a new version of the office suite, Office Mobile 2007. It became available as "Office Mobile 6.1" on September 26, 2007 as a free upgrade download to current Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 users. However, "Office Mobile 6.1 Upgrade" is not compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 powered devices running builds earlier than 14847. It will also be a pre-installed feature in subsequent releases of Windows Mobile 6 devices. Office Mobile 6.1 is compatible with the Office Open XML specification like its desktop counterpart.

On August 12, 2009, it was announced that Office Mobile would also be released for the Symbian OS platform as a joint agreement between Microsoft and Nokia.

Programs

Word Mobile

Word Mobile running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Word Mobile, originally called Pocket Word, has been included with the Office Mobile suite since the release of the Pocket PC in 2000. It is a word processor program with similar functions to its desktop counterpart, Microsoft Word. Word Mobile allows for basic formatting of documents, and has the ability to save documents in multiple formats including Rich Text Format, Microsoft's DOC format for reading on desktop versions of Word, and simple Text files. While it is possible to open legacy PSW (Pocket Word) files on the current version of Word Mobile, such files must be saved as another supported format. Word Mobile also allows for insertion of pictures, lists, and tables to documents, however pictures must be added on the desktop version of Word, and cannot be moved. Additionally, Word Mobile includes a spell checker, word count tool, and a "Find and Replace" command. Footnotes, endnotes, headers, footers, page breaks, certain indentation of lists, and certain fonts, while not displayed nor able to be inserted while working on a document in Word Mobile, such features are retained if the original document has them.

Excel Mobile

Excel Mobile running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Like Word Mobile, Excel Mobile was one of the original programs included in Office Mobile at its release. It is a spreadsheet program that is compatible with Microsoft Excel, and can create, open, edit, and save in Microsoft's '.xls' spreadsheet format. Excel Mobile allows for formatting of cells, basic calculations of formulas, and the creation of charts or graphs. As a means of dealing with limited screen resolution, Excel Mobile also has the ability to use a full-screen mode. In addition, it supports filtering of data and split panes to view different parts of a worksheet at one time. Protection settings, zoom settings, autofilter settings, certain chart formatting, hidden sheets, and other features are not supported on Excel Mobile, and will be modified upon opening and saving a workbook.

Outlook Mobile

Outlook Mobile is a personal information manager. Unlike the rest of the Office Mobile suite, Outlook Mobile does not consist of a single application on the Windows Mobile platform, and instead has several separate programs: Messaging, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks. It synchronizes e-mail, appointments, contacts, and tasks from the desktop version of Outlook. It is not compatible with Windows Calendar, Windows Mail, or Windows Contacts. Outlook Mobile is also capable of bypassing synchronization with its desktop counterpart by interacting directly with Microsoft Exchange Server. This direct interaction allows for an always-on E-mail connection, commonly referred to as Push e-mail. Push e-mail is also available to users with a Windows Live Hotmail account while logged onto Windows Live via their phone.

Messaging

Outlook Mobile's Messaging application includes the following features:

Push e-mail using Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Outlook folder synchronization

SMS messaging on phones

MMS messaging on phones

Windows Live Hotmail support

POP support

IMAP support

E-mail attachment support

HTML e-mail support

Exchange searching

Calendar

Outlook Mobile's Calendar program running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Outlook Mobile's Calendar application includes the following features:

vCal support

Agenda, Day, Week, Month, Year, and Lunar calendar views

Category support

Microsoft Exchange Server support

Reminders and Alarms

Contacts

Outlook Mobile's Contacts application includes the following features:

vCard support

Category support

Contact searching

Exchange searching

Contact photos

Ringtone assignment for contacts on phones

Tasks

Outlook Mobile's Tasks application includes the following features:

Category support

Priority status of tasks

Sensitivity status of tasks

Reminders

PowerPoint Mobile

PowerPoint Mobile was included with the release of the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. It is a presentation program capable of reading presentation documents from Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike Word and Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile is unable to create or edit new documents. Although essentially only a PowerPoint viewer, PowerPoint Mobile also allows for a zooming option to deal with limited screen resolution.

OneNote Mobile

OneNote Mobile running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Originally released with the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta, OneNote Mobile is a notetaking program that synchronizes with Microsoft OneNote. OneNote Mobile allows for basic formatting of text, the insertion of media such as pictures or audio recordings, creation of lists, and the use of hyperlinks within documents. Pictures and audio recordings may be taken directly from within the program using a built-in camera and microphone respectively.

See also

Microsoft Office

Pocket PC

Smartphone

Windows Mobile

Comparison of office suites

References

^ Office Mobile 6.1 Upgrade. Mobility Today. Retrieved 27 September 2007.

^ Crouch, Cameron. Pocket Full of PC Apps. PC World. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ Utter, David. Windows Mobile Now With PowerPoint!. WebProNews.com. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ a b Pratley, Chris. Out and About with OneNote Mobile. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ Langridge, Jason. Windows Mobile 6 - What's New and What's Cool?. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 14 September 2007.

^ a b Chan, John. Japanese WM6 and Office Mobile 2007. Crave - CNET Asia. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ Montalbano, Elizabeth (2009-08-12). "Microsoft, Nokia Team to Put Office Apps on Mobile Phones". PC World. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170080/microsoft_nokia_team_to_put_office_apps_on_mobile_phones.html. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 

^ a b Unsupported Features in Word Mobile. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 September 2007.

^ Use Word Mobile. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 September 2007.

^ a b Ogasawara, Todd. What New in Excel Mobile?. Microsoft. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ Use Excel Mobile. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 September 2007.

^ Unsupported features in Excel Mobile. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 September 2007.

^ Hardy, Ed. A Preview of Windows Mobile 2005. Brighthand. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

^ Use PowerPoint Mobile. Microsoft. Retrieved 14 September 2007.

^ OneNote Mobile 2007 quick start guide. Microsoft. Retrieved 13 September 2007.

External links

Microsoft Office Mobile

Outlook Mobile Team Blog

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Device software

Internet Explorer Mobile  Bing Mobile  Voice Command  Office Mobile  Remote Desktop  Windows Live for Mobile  Media Player Mobile

Desktop synchronization

ActiveSync  Outlook  Media Center  Media Player  Mobile Device Center

Server utilization

Exchange Server  DirectPush

Services

Windows Marketplace for Mobile  My Phone

Development

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Hardware

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Applications

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Server

Communications Server  Forms Server  Groove Server  PerformancePoint Server  Project Server (Project Portfolio Server)  Office SharePoint Server (Excel Services  InfoPath Forms Services)

Online

Live Meeting  Office Live  Office Online  Office Web Apps  Outlook Web Access

Mobile

Office Mobile

Office tools

Clip Organizer  Graph  Equation Editor  Picture Manager  WordArt

Discontinued

Accounting  Binder  Data Analyzer  Document Imaging  Document Scanning  FrontPage  Liquid Motion  Mail  Office Assistants  PhotoDraw  Photo Editor  Schedule+  Vizact  Web Components

Related

Microsoft Works  MapPoint  Microsoft SharePoint  Windows SharePoint Server

Technologies

Information Bridge Framework  Object Linking and Embedding  Office Open XML  Office XML formats  Smart tags  Visual Basic for Applications  Clippy

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