All these apps are designed to enhance productivity, and to give you more tools to work with, directly in your office suite. For instance, Bing Maps for Office was designed as a visualization tool for Excel. Using location names, you can pull in a Bing map, and work with it as you would in the browser, zooming in and out, and even adjusting the map view to road or birds eye. The screenshot above gives you a fair idea of how things work.
Bing Finance for Office is a finance portfolio tool, still in beta. Like Bing Maps for Office, it was designed for Excel, allowing you to build a finance portfolio table in two ways: Data Pivot and News Pivot. You can search and build a list of companies, add stocks, refresh values, and much more.
Bing Image Search for Office and Bing News Search for Office were designed for Word, allowing you to perform searches on the web from within your document. When you find what you are looking for, you can easily add the data to your document, and save it for later use. For News, search results are displayed on the right sidebar, under three pivots, including best match, video and current. Results can be added to favorites, and viewed by clicking on the highlighted star icon on top right.
Last, but not least, Bing Dictionary for Office comes in handy if you type documents in English, and you are not sure about the latest definitions and spellings available. The app can suggest letters, words or phrases - a great addition to the already exiting Word thesaurus, that doesn't necessarily contain neologisms of various industries.
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