When we first got a look at the Windows Phone 7 emulator, the Microsoft Office suite of software needed a bit of work (to say the least). Well, we finally have a much better sense of how Office on Windows Phone 7 work thanks to MobilityDigest (which we posted about last week), and we’re darn impressed. It seems that Microsoft built Office Mobile around how people interact with documents on their phone – often to view, and to edit when possible. Even wtih all of the advancements in smartphone software, we still don’t have a fantastic solution for managing Microsoft Office documents. It looks like with WP7, that will change. Here’s a look at how it’ll work.

So let’s say you pull up an email that has a PowerPoint (.pptx) file attached. You can open it…

…and view the presentation. Let’s say you want to edit this slide.

You tap on the pencil icon, and you get a keyboard which isolates the text, allowing you to make changes.

When done, right from the same screen, you can quickly send it back to the person that sent it to you.

In another scenario where you’re looking at a Word document, you can easily see comments made by colleague. It looks like you can even categorize the comments with different colors. That means you can have multiple people comment on a document and each have their own color, etc.

Once you’re viewing comments, you can tap on any of the highlighted words to see the comment.

You can add comments right from your device, and once done, you can hit Send and zip off the updated document right from Word Mobile. Nice.

(via: MobilityDigest)