Quickoffice Enhances Its Android Mobile Office Application
Quickoffice, Inc., the global leader in mobile office productivity solutions, today released a new software update to its Android productivity application. Supporting smartphones running Gingerbread, Froyo and clair (2.0-2.3) operating systems, Quickoffice Pro features dramatic new enhancements, including robust editing features, faster file loading, scrolling and zooming, integrated contextual search, text-to-speech via Google PDF viewing, as well as overall performance improvements. Formerly branded Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite, Quickoffice Pro version 4.0 also further extends the app’s editing capabilities within Microsoft Office files, enabling users to insert images and format text in tables in Word and create new PowerPoint 97-2008 presentations.
Quickoffice Pro enables a true mobile Office experience, providing full editing of Microsoft Office files and mobile cloud storage access to Box.net, Google Docs, Dropbox, Huddle, SugarSync and MobileMe accounts. The latest software update brings enhancements to its Connected File Manager, Quickword, Quicksheet and Quickpoint editors. Enabling users to easily manage, sort and locate its files and digital content within the application, Quickoffice’s Connected File Manager now features a new toolbar, the ability to send files directly via email and via Bluetooth to enable a smoother workflow.
In addition, all three powerful editors now feature cut/copy/paste text and undo/redo capabilities. Other product enhancements include:
Quickword – edit/format text in tables; floating contextual toolbar; insert/remove images from camera and gallery; paragraph alignment; find and replace; text-to-speech; web lookup; quick scroll in page layout; edit text in page layout; and scrollable application toolbar with shortcuts
Quicksheet – shortcuts to math calculations; insert/remove rows and columns; find and replace; add, remove and rename worksheets; cell alignment; follow and edit hyperlinks; display additional charts; and scrollable application toolbar
Quickpoint – insert, remove and rearrange slides; inline text editing on a slide; insert, remove and resize images; move/resize shapes; edit speaker notes; follow hyperlinks; select and format text and scrollable application toolbar
“With our biggest software update for Android smartphones since our initial launch, our goal was to provide users with significant performance and editing enhancements, while taking into consideration our top customer requests,” said David Halpin, vice president of engineering at Quickoffice. “As the Android smartphone market share is one of the fastest growing segments, we view it as a critical platform and aim to provide a robust mobile Office editing experience that will enable superior performance while on the go through a slick, user-friendly mobile interface.”
Quickoffice also comes pre-loaded on the majority of the world’s Android devices. Consumers with the view-only version of the app embedded on their smartphone can purchase an upgrade to include full editing and cloud access functionality for an introductory price of $7.99.
