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Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Preview: Office file viewing, new text and signature annota

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Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Preview: Office file viewing, new text and signature annotation

In Mac OS X Lion, Preview 5.5 gains the ability to view Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents and expands its PDF annotation features.


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The feature of being able to open Microsoft Office documents is very welcoming. I currently don't own a copy of Office, so being able to view such documents through a native app is great. I'm always slightly annoyed, when I need to open a document, and the third party app takes forever to open, especially on my 4-5 year old Macbook. Hopefully, I'll be able to upgrade to Lion on that old Macbook.
 
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That's a neat feature. Certainly saves time when you just want to look at your office documents really quick instead of launch the actual application. Office 2008 took like 45-60 seconds to launch sometimes and that seems like forever especially when you are trying to take notes.

Somewhat glad that 2011 is so much faster.
 
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Lion is going to be awesome.
 
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whoa.. the signature thing is really awesome.

So now when someone shoots me a document I don't have to print it, sign it, scan it and then email it back off? I can just receive the document, attach my signature and shoot it right back?

how friggin awesome is that?
 
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The signature thing is handy if you need to sign documents. As for the Office format support in Preview, I'm not sure. I have Office and with QuickLook, all my viewing needs are satisfied. For those that don't have Office though, that's a great feature if you only need to view the documents.
 
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I hope they update Quick Look to have better Office support. Many times I've come across a Word document that I couldn't preview with Quick Look and instead I had to launch Word to see the contents. Happens with both .doc and .docx files
 
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Wow I can see that signature thing being a con-artist's dream come true.
 

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