QuickOffice 4.0

QuickOffice has been a mainstay for Symbian phones for many years. It comes packed in with many Series 60 devices as a quick, highly versatile way to not only view Microsoft Office files but also edit them. Like a miniature Office suite with dedicated modules, QuickOffice has QuickWord (Word files) QuickSheet (Excel) and QuickPoint (PowerPoint) to edit and send the respective file formats from your phone.
 
QuickOffice does an excellent job of editing these primary Office file types in a smart phone like the Nokia N62, on which we tested the program. In QuickSheet, for instance, you can edit cells and even ranges of cells, freeze a pane, and zoom in and out of a large spreadsheet. With a QWERTY keyboard and a pop-up menu structure in the program, most low-level editing is a breeze. Likewise, QuickWord has cool navigation for searching a doc and moving quickly to the middle or end. You can pop in and out of edit and view modes. The PowerPoint editor is most impressive, if only because it lets you reorder your presentation on the fly, insert comments for others to read, and pull graphics down from a multimedia shop and insert them into slides.
 
Powerful as it is, QuickOffice is not for anything but light editing and commenting on documents. We found that sending edited files was fairly straightforward, as the program e-mails files directly from its general file manager. Receiving file attachments via the N62 was problematic, however, as the Inbox didn't seem to accept a small, simple Word attachment. We found that side-loading docs via the Nokia PC-to-Phone software was the best way to get files into the deck. QuickOffice itself could use some onboard Help files (they were unavailable in our version) and a clearer interface for sending and receiving e-mail (we couldn't distinguish sent from received mail).
 
Although it is a step in the right direction, QuickOffice doesn't quite overcome some of the confusion inherent in smart phone interfaces that try to stuff PC-like functionality into your pocket.

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