Your OneNote notes will pop up whether they've been typed, handwritten or scanned, according to the Office team. With the updated Office apps for the iPhone and iPad, your search results will now include OneNote notes and Outlook emails. Even further, iPad Pro users who buy the $99 Apple Pencil will be able to mark up their documents more quickly and intuitively using the styluslike device, Apple says. Microsoft is adding an inking feature to its Office apps, which includes pens, highlighters, a thickness control and a color wheel. After your edits are made, tap the back button in Word and the document will be attached to a new email message in Outlook, ready to be sent.īeyond the split-view mode, the iPad Pro lets users more easily highlight and mark up documents, especially useful when collaborating with other people, Apple says. While you edit the Word document, you can still view the email message.

The following example, cited by Microsoft's Office Team in a blog post late Wednesday, shows the benefits of being able to run Outlook with another Office app: Tap on a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file attached to an email message and Outlook will automatically launch the corresponding app with the file ready for editing, right next to Outlook. Users who shell out the $799 or more on an iPad Pro need to know they'll be able to work on it efficiently, which means the old rivals' products need to work well together.

But a key theme in its presentation Wednesday was productivity, which is why Microsoft was invited to demo Outlook features on the device. It can also be of value to those who want to keep their Outlook email open and viewable at the same time they work on a Word document or PowerPoint presentation.Īpple is proud of the iPad Pro's hardware specs, including a beefy 12.9-inch screen, a Retina display, a powerful processor and about 10 hours of battery life. Using the split-view mode, you can see two apps side by side, which comes in handy for Office users who may want to run Excel and PowerPoint together.

On Wednesday, Microsoft touted updates to its Office software that will be handy for users of the big new iPad Pro, as well as the Apple Watch.Īpple's iPad Pro, unveiled Wednesday, adds multitasking, or the ability to view and run more than one app at a time. Microsoft's Surface tablets and Apple's iPads may be rivals, but that doesn't mean Microsoft has nothing good to say about the iPad. Viewing two apps side by side is one of the benefits for Office users who buy the new iPad Pro.

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