Bing Unveils 5 Apps for Office 365 and Office 2013
Bing in a continuous effort to improve Office experience for Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2013 users introduced 5 brand new apps. These apps are designed to make Bing available for all Microsoft products viz.
- Fresno, CA (1888PressRelease) February 09, 2013 - Bing in a continuous effort to improve Office experience for Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2013 users introduced 5 brand new apps. These apps are designed to make Bing available for all Microsoft products viz. Windows 8 and Windows phone along with XBOX device. Other than what Microsoft says about these apps, it looks like the giant is trying to dissuade third-party app developers from gaining share into its booty. Nevertheless, have a look these apps and their features and installation requirements and decide whether you want to go for them or not.
Bing Maps App: Map Read Your Data
The new Bing Maps app, currently in version 1.2, is designed for Office Excel 365 and 2013. The app lets an Excel 2013 user map read the data from a given location in a column and plot it on a default Bing map or pie chart to visualize the information for miscellaneous purposes. The visualization tool inserts a default map in your Excel spreadsheet and lets you select location data from a given column or multiple columns to plot it and look like a map, pie chart, or circles. If not needed, the user can disable it and re-enable it when needed. To disable the app, click Insert (on Excel spreadsheet)> click Apps for Office> Manage My Apps> click Action> Hide. The app has been well received by Excel users due to its usefulness in office-related works.
Highlights of Bing Maps App:
• Inserts a default map for quick plotting of data
• Capability of zooming in/out the map using touch or mouse or built-in map controls in your Excel sheet
• Can change the map view to road- or bird's eye-view mode
• Data visualization controls to plot and visualize data from a single data column or multiple data columns
• Capability of plotting data on a map, pie chart, or circles
• The app is free and is available for download from Office Web Apps store
Bing Maps App Installation Requirements:
• Excel 2013 (version 15)
• Internet Explorer 9 or later
Bing Finance App (Beta)
This app, currently in version 1.1, lets a user create a stock portfolio table in an Excel spreadsheet from the location data given in a column or multiple columns. Users can add stock symbols and use from the available wide range of data columns to add stocks from different companies, price charts, current price, and news among other things to track and maintain their investment portfolios. The app lets users choose to draw either a Data Pivot or News Pivot portfolio table to add and organize their stock data from different companies without skipping a quote or news. The famous investment research and resource provider namely Morningstar provides the investment data for the app users. A user might have to wait to get updated stock quotes as they are late by 15 minutes.
Highlights of Bing Finance App (Beta):
• Capability of creating and updating a stock portfolio table
• Choose from Data pivot table or News pivot table types to respectively create a custom data-oriented table or create a news-based table using the default range of columns
• Capability of adding stock(s) to portfolio table in 3 different ways viz. Data Pivot, News Pivot, and Directly in Excel
• View data either from a single cell or a row and the value of corresponding stock is automatically updated
• The News pivot is automatically updated when you move between rows or cells
• Refresh Table feature to update data values to their recent values in the portfolio table
• The app is free and is available for download from Office Web Apps store
Bing Finance App Installation Requirements:
• Excel 2013 (version 15)
• Internet Explorer 9 or later
Bing News Search App
Currently in version 1.1, Bing's News Search is a task-pane app, which allows users to search for news as well as related videos and images from inside a Word document and mark favorite search results for viewing or inserting into it. Select a text from the document and click Search to look for related news, weather information, and videos. Bing, the Microsoft search engine provides data from a wide-ranging collection of news, weather information, videos, and other miscellaneous information for search results. Users can disable the default search settings and setup custom search for their needs. The app is not only good but has bad sides too. It is capable of reading and editing a user's document who inserts a search result and also accessing his information from his corporate network or the Internet.
Highlights of Bing News Search App:
• You can add a search result to your Word document by clicking the (+) icon
• Search results are categorized into Best Match, Current, and Video pivots for optimized results
• Search results can added to the favorite list and removed from it using the Favorite star button
• Favorite search results are locally stored on a computer in HTML5 format, which makes them accessible across all the documents on the machine
• A favorite search result can be added to and removed from the Word document
• The app is free and is available for download from Office Web Apps store
Bing News Search App Installation Requirements:
• Word 2013 (version 15)
• Internet Explorer 9 or later
Bing Dictionary (English) App
The app currently versioned at 1.2.0.0 offers English, non-English users with a high-quality powerful tool to quickly search for word meanings, synonyms, words, phrases, letters, suggested sentence structure specified by POS (parts of speech), sample sentences, and other linguistic content for their Word and Excel documents. The app is powered by Microsoft Research's Engkoo, which is a linguist technology using cloud and natural-language-processing research to offer a multitude of benefits from sentence structure, sentence classification, phonetic search, and other content.
Highlights of Bing Dictionary (English) App
• Largest collection of English linguistic material including words/phrases, suggested sentence structure and samples, word meanings, and synonyms etc.
• Web scale collections
• Powerful, fast search capabilities to quickly produce high-quality content
• Easy to use search tool
• Continuously updating database to provide fresh content
• The app is free and is available for download from Office Web Apps store
Bing Dictionary (English) App Installation Requirements:
• Word 2013 (version 15)
• Excel 2013 (version 15)
• Internet Explorer 9 or later
Bing Image Search App
Beautify your Word documents or make them impressive using this Bing Image Search app, which is currently versioned at 1.0. Search from Bing's widest image collection and add searched images to your Word documents directly from search results without waiting for Clip Art to open or browsing your computer's library. The app is free and is available for download from Office Web Apps store.
Highlights of Bing Image Search App:
• Search for images from the largest collection of Bing's database
• Add images from a search result to your Word document
• Add favorite images to the favorite list and remove unwanted ones
• Refine your image search using "Filters" based on color, layout, people, type, and size etc. These filters are saved once you create them and appear on the document screen. The filters can also be removed and re-created if required.
• Favorite search results are locally stored on a computer in HTML5 format, which makes them accessible across all the documents on the machine
Bing Image Search App Installation Requirements:
• Word 2013 (version 15)
• Internet Explorer 9 or later
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