Documents to go
Details
Name: Documents to go
Developer: DataViz
Version: 1.0.0.1
Price: $19.99, €14.40
Cyrket URL: http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.dataviz.docstogoapp
Date: 15 June 2009
Review
This app is one of the few working document readers. It reads Microsoft Word 97-2008 and Microsoft Excel 97-2008. With €14.40 it is one of the most expensive apps available in the Market. Due to its price my expectations were high.
Startup
The app boots pretty fast. After starting you will get to see this starting screen.
I find the 3 buttons on the bottom quite frustrating, I never use them and they take up a LOT of space and nearly serve the same purpose: promoting the developer. If this was a free app I’d have peace with it but since I paid €14.40 for this I’d rather have those 3 buttons removed or reduced in size.
Word
Once you chose the Word button the app will show you 2 options, opening a word file or create a new one. On the bottom it will show your recently used documents, which is quite handy.
Opening word files is done pretty quick, depending on the size of course.
Features
There are loads of options in the editor. You can even set your name to appear in the “Author” information, choose the output format (2004 or 2008), set all text to capslock, insert page breaks, hyperlinks, comments, tables, zoom in and out and even add foot and header notes. This list isn’t even coming close to all features this app contains.
Typing isn’t very convenient because the on-screen keyboard takes up 40% of the screen. This of course only applies on the Magic.
Excel
The excel part of the software has the same heap of options that the word module has.
It supports function input and even has about 100 pre-defined functions! Wonderful!
The excel module can display rows 1-18 and collums A, B and C on one screen when your zoom is set to 100%. Zooming in and out is possible.
5 languages supported
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Conclusion
Being one of the most expensive apps in the market my expectations were high. Sadly the app didn’t satisfy at all points. One of the biggest lacks is PDF and PPT support. I know PDF is not an Office product, but the app is not called Microsoft Office To Go, but documents to go! I can imagine that opening PPT’s on an Android device requires a lot of processor and memory.
I find the price a bit too high for an app with quite some advertising and no PDF support.
The things that it does support are done exceptionally good with a lot of options available.
Positive
+ Word and Excel 2008 support
+ Loads of options
+ Fast
+ Easy to use UI
Negative
- Somewhat expensive
- No PDF support
- Annoying 3 buttons on the start
My rating
2009 - Draxter
