Working with office documents on a mobile device always has been clunky at best. In an effort to make handheld computers truer replacements for desktops and laptops, software house SoftMaker has brought forth a new innovation in the form of SoftMaker Office Mobile 2012, a full-featured office software app suite designed for smartphones and tablets running Android. Going beyond document viewers, SoftMaker Office Mobile includes three separate office applications: the TextMaker word processor, the PlanMaker spreadsheet and the SoftMaker Presentations presentation package. Each app, says SoftMaker, is fully functional and capable of interoperating with Microsoft Office documents with no loss of layout or formatting including advanced items, such as charts, calculations, transitions and animations. Advanced office functions, such as tracking document changes and adding annotations, spreadsheet calculations and charting, presentation slide transitions and animations and PDF creation, also are included. Cloud-based services include Save to Dropbox and Save to Evernote, which expand functionality for document sharing and collaboration regardless of location.
