Documents To Go App for Android
Documents To Go brings the much needed enterprise capability to Android devices, and it’ll come handy to those who heavily use their Android handsets at work. Documents To Go Android app lets its users create, edit, view, and save Word and Excel files from within from the Android handset. It also let users add formatting such as font settings, underlining, font color, bulleted and numbered lists, alignment, tables, bookmarks, footnotes, comments etc, to name a few, to the said Microsoft Office files.
Components
Documents To Go Android app has two components: Word to Go, a well rounded editor for MS Word documents, and Sheet to Go, the Microsoft Excel documents editor.
Word to Go works much like its PC cousin, and it offers the basic features required for writing and editing Word docs in Android. The edit menu offers simple cut, copy, paste, and undo functionality, while the view menu supports jumping around the document, and the functionality to zoom in and out of a page. Also, it allows the users to view and edit headers, footers footnotes, endnotes and the table of contents. Further, the insert menu has the functionalities for insertion of page breaks, hyperlinks, bookmarks, tables and comments, while the format menu supports italic, bold, and underlined text styling. It also supports a few standard fonts/simple paragraph formatting, plus bulleted and numbered lists, indenting and out-denting, and hyperlinks.
Sheet To Go has all the basic Word To Go functionalities, plus Excel specific ones such as row and column insertion/deletion, support for the inclusion of cell comments, and support for functions and auto-sum. It also supports in-cell formulas and calculations. Other column and row functions include Autofit, Select, and Hide/Unhide.
Conclusion
Documents To Go app for Android is not a replacement for a full fledged version of MS Word or Excel, run on a PC or netbook. But it really comes handy to business persons or executives, who might have to work with the abovementioned MS Office documents often, and just can’t wait to reach to a PC/netbook to do the job. Also, Documents To Go is compatible with Windows OS, and can be synchronized/copied with a copy in the PC through a data cable. Documents To Go also works well with PDF and PPT files. Overall, a handy editing tool for executives, its price tag of $20 not withstanding!
