236 Section 5B: Increasing Your Productivity
Excel Mobile
With Excel Mobile you can create and edit workbooks and templates on your
smart device. You can also edit workbooks and templates that you create on your
computer. However, keep in mind that you may lose some of the information
and formatting when you save the workbook on your smart device.
Note the following formatting considerations:
䢇 Alignment: Vertical text appears horizontal.
䢇 Borders: Appear as a single line.
䢇 Cell patterns: Patterns applied to cells are removed.
䢇 Fonts and font sizes: The original font is listed on your smart device and
mapped to the closest font available. Original fonts reappear on your
computer.
䢇 Number formats: Microsoft
®
Excel
®
97 conditional formatting is displayed in
number format.
䢇 Formulas and functions: Unsupported functions are removed, and only the
returned value of the function appears. Formulas containing the following
are also converted to values:
䡲 An array or array argument, for example, =SUM({1;2;3;4})
䡲 External link references or an intersection range reference
䡲 References past row 16384 are replaced with #REF!
Tip:
To copy a file from your computer to your device, open My Computer or
Windows Explorer on your computer, copy the file into the Mobile Device
folder, and then sync.