Windows Phone Mango Office 2010 Preview | Pocketnow

Windows Phone Mango features a completely redesigned Office hub and some excellent new SkyDrive integration features. The panes of the Office hub are much more well organized as well. The first pane lists recent OneNote pages in a vertically scrolling live-tile list. OneNote notes are now purple instead of the orange they were in Windows Phone 7, and there's a search button in the bottom menu. The search only supports page titles, not the contents of each note. Also in the menu is a command that will allow you to pin "new" to the start page. This is great for a quick shortcut to create a new note. The notebooks button at the bottom will automatically show all OneNote notebooks in your SkyDrive as well as any that you may have opened through SharePoint. You no longer have to manually set up a OneNote notebook sync relationship via the SkyDrive web page.

The documents pane also now lists documents as Live tile squares and also has its own search button at the bottom. The search interface for documents is a little different though. You've got pivot tab options at the top to search all documents or just specific locations such as SkyDrive, SharePoint, or your Phone's memory. Again, the search only works on file names, not contents, but that's okay.

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[shaf]

This whole playlist is amazing, now I know what the main features to expect in my next phone update are. Thanks a lot PocketNow!

[nameskhan]

The day microsoft makes OneNote fully functional will be the day I will never look at another operating system, I just wish OneNote wasn't neglected so much

[oolong]

@aceofspades25

At first reaction I would agree with you, but after thinking about it.... Colors give you a quick indication of what kind of document it is and big text allows you to know what's in the document without having to open it up.

It may not be the most asthetically pleasing, but it's a lot more useful than an icon...

[oolong]

@aceofspades25

The text wraps so you can see long titles.. However I agree that the purple is rather awful and bit more could be done to give it some flair as well as keep it functional.

[N_Fortune]

Soooo...DocumentsToGo has A LOT more editing options than MS Office!? Seems strange that DocsToGo has more options than the very company that created Word docs. Hopefully Mango gets the memo and there are more editing options in the final release.

[aceofspades]

@oolong2 It's not really useful to cram the document name into a square tile anyway, since most document names are too long. This is why documents should really be displayed as a list, and not squares.

As far as pinning documents to the home screen goes, Microsoft could seriously do a lot better. How about a nice icon (as in the office icons shown on the Windows 7 taskbar) with a bit of truncated text underneath showing part of the filename.

[MrGuzman]

@nameskhan So true. OneNote is the best note taking software on the market right now.

[SilverSpade]

you still can't create Powerpoints then?
only edit boxes and stuff? :(

[orbox]

Did i see a corrine bailey rae song!?!?!

[aceofspades]

Pleeease Microsoft change the colour of those hideous office document icons. How about a nice graphic instead.

There's no way I'm posting a shortcut to One note if it's going to be that garish purple colour.