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Quickoffice For Android OS: User Help Guide
Quickoffice For Android OS: User Help Guide
for Android OS
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User Help Guide
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Contents
Quickoffice® for Android OS ................................................................................................ 1
Version 3.2.40 ..................................................................................................................... 1
User Help Guide .................................................................................................................. 1
Contents .............................................................................................................................. 2
Quickoffice® for Android ..................................................................................................... 6
Overview of Quickoffice Connect™ Mobile Suite for Android .................. 6
General Features................................................................................................................. 6
Localized for International Users .............................................................. 6
E-mail Attachments .................................................................................. 6
Automatically Check for Updates ............................................................. 6
Register your Application ......................................................................... 6
View File Properties .................................................................................. 6
View Information about Quickoffice ........................................................ 7
The Quickoffice File Manager ............................................................................................. 7
Supported File Types ................................................................................ 7
Create New Files ....................................................................................... 7
Viewing Files ............................................................................................. 7
Opening Files ............................................................................................ 8
Managing Files and Folders ...................................................................... 8
Browse ZIP Files as Folders ....................................................................... 9
Sort Files ................................................................................................... 9
Zooming and Scrolling .............................................................................. 9
Zooming: ................................................................................................... 9
Scrolling: ................................................................................................... 9
View and Open Recent Documents ........................................................ 10
Find Files ................................................................................................. 10
Downloading E-mail Attachments .......................................................... 11
Connect Services ............................................................................................................... 11
Overview ................................................................................................. 11
Requirements ......................................................................................... 11
Working with Box.net Accounts ............................................................. 12
Adding a Box.net account ....................................................................... 12
Not a Box.net subscriber?....................................................................... 12
Connecting to your Box.net storage ....................................................... 12
Connecting to multiple Box.Net accounts .............................................. 12
Changing your password......................................................................... 13
Working with Dropbox Accounts ............................................................ 13
Adding a Dropbox account ..................................................................... 13
Quickpoint® ....................................................................................................................... 42
Overview ................................................................................................. 42
Opening Presentations ........................................................................... 42
Viewing Presentations ............................................................................ 42
Zooming in and out ................................................................................. 42
Multi-touch zoom and flick-scrolling ...................................................... 42
View in portrait or landscape ................................................................. 42
Slideshow ................................................................................................ 43
Quick navigation using go to slide feature ............................................. 43
View tables.............................................................................................. 44
Display shapes and images ..................................................................... 44
Editing Presentations .............................................................................. 44
Selecting and editing text ....................................................................... 46
Saving Presentations............................................................................... 46
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QuickPDF .......................................................................................................................... 48
Overview ................................................................................................. 48
Open PDF Files ........................................................................................ 48
Open Password-Protected Files .............................................................. 48
Open Encrypted Files ................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Page View................................................................................................ 48
Reading View .......................................................................................... 49
Multiple Zoom Levels.............................................................................. 49
Multi-Touch Zooming and Flick-Scrolling ............................................... 50
View in Portrait or Landscape ................................................................. 50
Fit to Screen ............................................................................................ 50
Find Text ................................................................................................. 50
View Bookmarks ..................................................................................... 51
Go to Page............................................................................................... 52
Rotate Document.................................................................................... 52
Contact Us .............................................................................................. 53
Quickoffice Connect™ Mobile Suite is integrated with Quickoffice Connect™ services, allowing users to
easily access, view and share files from multiple cloud storage services, including MobileMe, Dropbox,
Google Docs, and Box.net. Within a single application, you can conveniently access content from
anywhere, edit that content, and save it back to your cloud storage service.
General Features
E-mail Attachments
Now you can edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are received as
attachments on your Android device
Files that are supported by other applications will be displayed and opened in their respective
applications. The following media files are supported by the Android Viewer and may be opened from
the Quickoffice file manager:
Viewing Files
Quickoffice allows you to view files on your memory card and also allows you to open documents that
have been recently viewed in the application.
Remote cloud storage accounts will display once you’ve added those accounts, and you will be able to
view files stored in those locations, as well.
Opening Files
A progress bar will display at the top of the screen as a file is being opened.
If you are already viewing a document, you can open another document from within the application.
Press the Menu button and then tap Open. The Quickoffice home screen will be displayed where you
may navigate to any folder on your SD card, in Recent Documents, or in any of the available cloud
storage locations to open another file.
Any changes you make to a file within a ZIP file will need to be saved outside of that file, as changes
cannot be made to files inside ZIP folders and files cannot be added to ZIP folders.
Sort Files
In the file manager, choose Menu and press Sort by to sort your files in ascending or descending order
by name, type, size or date modified.
Scrolling:
To scroll around a file, simply tap and drag up, down or sideways. A scrollbar on the right edge (vertical)
or at the bottom edge (horizontal) of the screen shows the relative position of the viewer in the file.
The vertical scrollbar on the right edge of the screen indicates the position in the document
Find Files
To find files, in the Home screen of the file manager, press the Menu button and tap Search. A Search
dialog will appear on the screen.
Enter text using your keypad or the on screen keyboard, and press the magnifying glass icon ( ) to
the right of the search field to begin your search. Quickoffice will return all files that contain the search
term in their filenames.
In the above screenshot, you can see the results that the search term “Simplifying” returned.
Note: The search feature is not supported for the Recent Documents folder at this time
Connect Services
Overview
Quickoffice Connect™ allows users to easily access, view and share files from multiple cloud storage
services, including MobileMe, Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box.net. From a single, convenient
application, you can access content from anywhere, manage content on-device and share files via e-mail
or your cloud service provider.
Requirements
In order to use the Connect service, you must set up an account with the supported cloud storage
service or services you wish to use. The Quickoffice application uses your sign-in information only to
connect to your service. Your sign-in information is only stored in the Quickoffice application on your
device – it is not collected or stored on our servers.
Press the Learn More about Box.net link below the OK and Cancel buttons to go to the Box.net home
page to sign up for an account and view resources and information about the service.
To add multiple accounts, simply repeat the steps from Connecting to your Box.net storage. All of your
accounts will be listed on the Quickoffice home screen.
If the password for your Box.net account has changed, you will need to enter your new password in
Quickoffice. From the home screen of Quickoffice, long-press the Box.net
item in the file manager and choose Edit from the menu.
Your Box.net account information will appear and you can change your password.
Press the Learn More about Dropbox link below the OK and Cancel buttons to log into your Dropbox
account to view and sync your files in your device’s browser.
To add multiple accounts, simply repeat the steps from Connecting to your Dropbox storage. All of
your accounts will be listed on the Quickoffice home screen.
If the password for your Dropbox account has changed, you will need to enter your new password in
Quickoffice. From the home screen of Quickoffice, long-press the Dropbox
item in the file manager and choose Edit from the menu.
Your Dropbox account information will appear and you can change your password. Simply enter the new
password and press OK.
Enter your Google Docs e-mail address and password, and then press OK. Press the Learn More about
Google Docs link under the OK and Cancel buttons to log into your Google Docs account and view your
files in your device’s browser.
To add multiple accounts, simply repeat the steps from Connecting to your Google Docs storage. All of
your accounts will be listed on the Quickoffice home screen.
If the password for your Google Docs account has changed, you need to enter your new password in
Quickoffice. From the home screen of Quickoffice, long-press the Google Docs service
In the account details screen, enter the new password and press OK.
About iDisk
iDisk, a MobileMe feature, is an online storage repository accessible via a web browser at me.com,
Finder on Mac OS X, or as a remote disk in Microsoft Windows. With MobileMe iDisk, it's easy to store,
access, and share files online. You have plenty of storage space - even large files are no problem. Just
add the files you need to your iDisk, and whatever you upload will be there for you to download using a
web browser on any computer.
For more info, visit: www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html
NOTE: Your MobileMe Member Name is not an e-mail address. Other services use your e-mail address,
but MobileMe uses a unique member name.
Press the Learn More about MobileMe link under the OK and Cancel buttons to go to the MobileMe site
and learn more about the service in your device’s browser.
Now you can access files on your iDisk storage from Quickoffice.
You can also access your friends’ public folders on their iDisk storage. To access your friends’ password
protected public folders, you will need their member names and passwords.
From the home screen of Quickoffice, press the Menu button. Select Add Remote Account , select
MobileMe ( ) from the services screen, and enter your friend's MobileMe member
name. If a password was set for your friend’s public folder, enter that password – otherwise, leave the
Password field blank and press OK.
Press the Learn More about MobileMe Public iDisk link to view information about MobileMe from the
Apple website.
Quickoffice allows you to connect to several MobileMe iDisk accounts. To add multiple accounts, simply
repeat the steps from Connecting to your MobileMe iDisk accounts. All of your accounts will be listed
on the Quickoffice home screen.
If the password for your MobileMe account has changed, you will need to enter your new password in
Quickoffice. On the Quickoffice home screen, long-press the MobileMe iDisk
Enter the new password in the account information screen and press OK.
Downloading files
You can download one or more files in any connected service location and save them locally to your SD
card for offline access. To do this, navigate to the folder where the files you wish to download are
located, then select them by clicking the checkbox icon ( ) to the right of each file you wish to
download. Press the Menu button and choose Copy from the on-screen menu. Navigate to the local
folder where you wish to download the copied files, press the Menu button again and choose Paste. The
selected files will be pasted to the new location. Also follow these steps to upload files to remote
storage locations.
Downloading a folder
As with files, you can select folders, copy them, navigate to a storage location, and paste the folder or
folders to download them to the memory card in your device.
To view a locally saved file, simply select SD Card from the home screen and navigate to the desired file.
Tap on the file to open it.
Organizing Files
Renaming a file
To rename a file, long-press the file name in the file manager A menu will appear.
Enter the new file name and tap Rename to apply the new name to the file.
To specify a destination folder, use the Back button ( ) to navigate to the desired parent folder. Once
you arrive in the parent folder, you can navigate to the destination folder by tapping on the folder icons
in the file manager. In the destination folder, you may paste any files that you cut or copied from the
source folder.
Quickword®
Overview
Quickoffice includes a ..doc- and .docx-compatible word processor. You can easily create new
documents and edit documents created on your PC/Macintosh.
Quickoffice has been developing Office applications for smartphones for the past 12 years. Quickoffice is
the leading mobile office application and is shipped on more than 200 million smartphones. Now,
Quickoffice has brought its award-winning word-processing application to the Google Android platform.
Opening Documents
Quickword can open Microsoft Word formatted documents, including .doc, .docx, .docm, .dot, .dotx and
.dotm. TXT files may be opened and viewed in Quickoffice.
Viewing Documents
Quickword provides users with several ways to view documents that optimize the use of the screen
space on their devices. The following sections will show how you can view your documents to make the
best use of the screen.
Reflow View
By default, Quickword displays your document in Reflow View, allowing the text to reflow to the size of
the screen as you zoom in or out within your document. This eliminates the need for scrolling left and
right in your document to read the text.
To return to Reflow view from any of the other views, press the Menu button and tap Reflow View.
To zoom in or out in a document, tap on the document to bring up the zoom control:
Then tap the zoom out icon ( ) or zoom in icon ( ) to change the view.
Page View
To view a document in Page layout view, press the Menu button, tap More, and choose Page View.
text you wish to search for and tap the search icon ( ) to the right of the text field. Quickword will
highlight all instances of the text you are searching for.
Tap the find next icon ( ) and find previous icon ( ) to search forward and backward through
your document. When you are finished with your search, tap the Back ( ) button.
Flick scrolling
You can flick scroll through your documents in Quickword, taking advantage of this native Android
feature.
View images
Quickword displays images in your documents.
You can pan tables left or right to view their contents when they are wider than the screen in Reflow
View.
Charts
Charts in Word 2003 (.doc) files are displayed as images.
Creating Documents
To create a new Microsoft Word-compatible document using Quickword, press the Menu button and
tap Create Document. The Create Document menu will appear, with options to create a new Word
Document (Word 2007 or .docx file), Word 97-2003 Document (.doc file), an Excel Workbook (Excel
2007 or .xlsx file) or an Excel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls file).
Saving Documents
Saving documents is easy in Quickword--just press the Menu button and tap Save.
Once you have saved, you will be returned to your document where you may continue editing.
If you wish to save your document as a new file, press the Menu button and tap More. Choose Save As,
and the Save dialog will appear briefly, followed by the Save As screen.
Enter the new filename in the Save As field and select the destination where you want to save your file.
Editing Text
Quickword supports rich text editing features. To edit text, first make sure you are in Reflow View. Tap
on the document in the location where you wish to insert new text. A blinking cursor will appear
indicating where your text will be inserted. Begin typing on the device keypad or press the Menu
button and tap Keyboard to enter text using the on-screen keyboard.
Select text
Selecting text is easy – double-tap or long-tap the word or the first word in a string you wish to select. If
you double-tap, the current word will be selected. If you long-tap, a menu will appear. Choose Select
Text from the Edit Text menu. This will also select the current word.
The word that you double-tapped or tapped and held will be selected:
Tap at the location where you want the selection to end to extend the selection.
The second section allows you to choose from several typefaces and to specify the size of your font.
The last section of the screen allows you to select a font color and highlight color for the selected text.
Edit in Landscape
Quickword responds to your device accelerometer – when you rotate your device to landscape
orientation, your documents are fully-editable.
Quicksheet®
Overview
Quicksheet includes a .xls- and .xlsx-compatible spreadsheet processor. You can easily create new
spreadsheets and edit spreadsheets created on your PC/Macintosh.
Quickoffice has been developing Office applications for smartphones for the past 12 years. Quickoffice is
the leading mobile office application and is shipped on more than 200 million smartphones. Now,
Quickoffice has brought its award-winning spreadsheet application to the Android platform.
Opening Spreadsheets
Quicksheet can open any of the supported file formats for viewing and editing. Supported formats
include .xls, .xlsm, .xla, .xlam, .xlt, .xltm, .xlsx and .xltx file formats. Any of these can be edited using
Quicksheet.
Creating Spreadsheets
To create a new spreadsheet, press the Menu button and tap Create Document.
The Create Document menu will appear, with options to create a new Word Document (Word 2007 or
.docx file), Word 97-2003 Document (.doc file), an Excel Workbook (Excel 2007 or .xlsx file) or an Excel
97-2003 Workbook (.xls file). Select the desired format for your Excel workbook. A new spreadsheet will
open with the default name “New Spreadsheet.xlsx” or “New Spreadsheet.xls”, depending on your
selection.
Saving Spreadsheets
To save a spreadsheet, press the Menu button and tap Save. To save a spreadsheet with a different
filename, press the Menu button and tap More. Tap Save As, and a Save dialog will appear briefly,
followed by the Save As screen.
Enter the new filename in the Save As field and select a destination for your file.
Viewing Worksheets
Quicksheet provides several ways for you to view your spreadsheets to make the best use of your
device’s screen.
To zoom in or out in a spreadsheet, tap on the sheet to bring up the zoom control:
Tap the zoom out icon ( ) or zoom in icon( )to change the view.
wish to search and tap the Search icon ( ) to the right of the text field. Quicksheet will select the
cell that contains the first instance of the text string you entered. Tap the next icon ( ) to find the
next instance of the text string or tap the previous icon ( ) to find the previous instance of the text
A dialog will appear with a field where you can enter the cell address.
Press OK to go directly the selected cell or press Cancel to return to your spreadsheet.
Viewing charts
Quicksheet supports the viewing of 2D charts in Excel 2003 spreadsheets. Supported chart types are pie,
donut, area, surface, radar, and bubble charts.
Viewing images
Quicksheet displays images in spreadsheets.
Editing Spreadsheets
Quicksheet provides Android users with a robust spreadsheet editor. With Quicksheet you can select
cells or ranges of cells, resize rows and columns, format text, format numbers, insert functions, and edit
spreadsheets in portrait or landscape.
Selecting cells
To select a cell in Quicksheet, simply tap on the cell you wish to select. To select a range of cells, long-
tap on a cell and choose Select Cells from the menu.
Long-tap anywhere in the selected range to bring up a menu, where you can select Cancel Selection,
Font Format, or Number Format.
Formatting text
To format text in Quicksheet, long-tap a cell and choose Font Format from the menu that appears.
The Font Format screen will appear with options to set text to bold, italic, underline or strikethrough
styles. Select a font face from the available device fonts and specify the size for the font.
Tap the color swatches for Font Color or Fill Color to bring up a color picker you can use to select a color
for your text or cell background.
Number formatting
To format numbers in the selected cell or cells, long-tap the cell or range of cells and choose Number
Format from the menu that appears.
You can choose from the categories for General, Number, Currency, Accounting, Date, Time,
Percentage, Scientific and Text. The additional formatting options (such as decimal places, symbol,
negative numbers, etc.) vary, depending on the category selected.
Press OK to apply your number format settings. Press Cancel to return to your spreadsheet without
applying any changes.
Function support
Quicksheet supports 140 Excel functions. To apply a function, type it into the cell.
Quickpoint®
Overview
Quickpoint is the Quickoffice presentation application for your Android device. Quickpoint supports the
.ppt, .pptx, and other PowerPoint file formats. Quickpoint is optimized for your Android device. This
section will help you understand how Quickpoint works with presentations.
Opening Presentations
Quickpoint can open .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .pot, .pptm, .ppa, .ppam, .ppsm, .potx and .ppsx files on your
device. To open a presentation, navigate to any location on your SD card, in Recent Documents, or on
one of the cloud storage locations and tap on the presentation you wish to open. You may also open
presentations that come in as e-mail attachments.
Viewing Presentations
When a presentation is first opened, the presentation is displayed in Film Strip View, with slides
displayed in a continuous strip, allowing you to scroll quickly through the presentation.
Tap the zoom in ( ) side of the control to zoom in on your presentation and view more detail. Tap
the zoom out ( ) side of the control to zoom out and view more of the current slide or series of
slides.
Slideshow
To play your presentation on your device as a slideshow, press the Menu button and tap Start
Slideshow.
Your presentation will begin playing, slide-by-slide, against a black background with the slide indicator (
) displayed at the top right of the screen. To stop your slideshow, press the Menu button again
and tap Stop Slideshow. The slideshow will stop, and you’ll be returned to the last slide that was viewed
in the slideshow.
View tables
Tables in PowerPoint 97-2003 (.ppt) presentations will display in Quickpoint.
In PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) files, tables are converted to graphics with white backgrounds.
Editing Presentations
You can edit the text in your presentations using Quickpoint. Long-tap any text on the screen to access
the Edit Text dialog.
Tap anywhere on the text to insert the cursor and edit text. To access the Edit Text menu, long-press on
the text you wish to edit.
The Edit Text menu allows you to select all of the text in the editor, select a specific string of text, cut all
text in the editor, copy all text in the editor, select an input method or add a word to the user dictionary.
Tap after the last character you wish to select to complete the selection.
You may now enter new text or long-tap the selected text to access the Edit Text menu again to select
an option. You will notice that instead of Select Text, the Stop Selecting Text option will appear.
Once you’ve copied text to the device clipboard, the Edit Text menu will include a Paste command,
allowing you to paste the text into the current text editing screen, another text editing screen, or
another presentation.
Saving Presentations
To save your presentation, press the Menu button and tap Save. The Save dialog will appear, showing
the progress of the operation.
To save your presentation and change the name or location where it is saved, press the Menu
button and tap Save As. The Save dialog will appear, followed by the Save As screen.
Enter the new filename in the Save As field and select the desired destination for your presentation.
Press Save to save your presentation or press Cancel to return to your presentation.
QuickPDF®
Overview
Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for Android includes a premium PDF reader that enables users to view
PDF files. Enjoy enhanced PDF viewing with faster rendering and single-column text reflow capabilities
for improved readability.
If another PDF reader is present on your device, choose Quickoffice to open the PDF in QuickPDF.
Page View
When you open a PDF in QuickPDF, the file opens in Page View. Use the up and down navigation keys to
scroll through your PDF file. On Android 2.0 and above, Page View allows you to quickly flick-scroll
through pages, displaying a page indicator at the top right of the screen.
Reading View
QuickPDF provides an alternate view for PDF files, where text is reflowed on the screen to provide a
better viewing experience, eliminating left and right scrolling for text-heavy documents. To access this
feature, press the Menu button and tap Reading View.
Then tap the zoom out icon ( ) and zoom in icon ( ) to change the view.
Fit to Screen
When zoomed in on a document in Page View, double-tap the screen to fit the page to the screen.
Find Text
You can find text in your PDF files using QuickPDF. Press the Menu button, and tap Find or press the
Search ( ) key on your device, and a text entry field will appear at the top of the device screen.
Enter a word or phrase for which you want to search and press the next icon ( ).
QuickPDF will highlight the first instance of the text in the PDF file.
Other instances of the text string will appear with an outline around them.
Press the next icon ( ) again to highlight the next instance of the text.
Press the previous icon ( ) to move to the previous instance of the text.
View Bookmarks
You can view bookmarks in your PDF files using QuickPDF. Press the Menu button and tap Bookmarks.
QuickPDF will display any bookmarks in your PDF file.
Tap the icons to expand the sections, and tap the icons to contract expanded sections. Tap an
entry to go to that section of the document.
Go to Page
You can go to any page in your PDF file. To do this, press the Menu button and tap Go To Page. The Go
To Page dialog will appear. Enter the page number you wish to go to and press OK. Press Cancel to
return to the current page.
Rotate Document
You can rotate your PDF documents on the screen. To do this, press the Menu button, tap More,
then tap Rotate. The Rotate dialog will appear. Tap Rotate Left or Rotate Right to rotate your PDF in the
desired direction.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about or need assistance with Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad,
please search our knowledge base or contact Customer Care through our ticket system at
http://support.quickoffice.com. Tickets may be submitted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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We also appreciate feedback on what you would like to see in future versions of our products. To
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other mobile solutions, please visit http://quickoffice.ideascale.com/.