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Make document, workbook, deck or PDF

Ask The Office for Word document, Excel workbook, deck or PDF with your own words, watch as dem dey make am, and find di finished file for My Files.

Ask am with your own words

The Office dey turn simple request to finished file. Use am when you need report, budget sheet, set of slides or PDF, and you prefer to talk wetin you want pass to build am yourself.

  1. Open The Office for di bottom bar.
  2. Tap Make one file for me, or write for di box wey dey di bottom. Di box dey ask Wetin you need?
  3. Talk wetin di file na for, who go read am and wetin must dey inside am, then send am.

If your desk empty, you fit tap one of di examples, like Arrange my meeting or Sort my spending, make e go as your first message. Di desk fit answer with short question first, like wetin di paper be about and na for who; reply for di box or tap one of im suggestions.

Example
Expense sheet for my house, with categories, formulas and total.
Example
Short deck wey go explain my idea for five slides.

Choose di kind and di level

You fit talk di kind with your words, or you fit pick am yourself:

  1. Tap + for di box.
  2. Under New document, choose Word, Excel, Deck or PDF.
  3. Set di level with Think: Low, Mid, Max or Ultra.

Wetin you choose go show as small tags for di box, and deck go show as Slides there; tap di kind tag to clear am. If you no pick any kind, di desk go work am out from your words. Max na di level wey you start with. Higher level dey take more care for di paper and e dey cost more credits; Levels and credits: how dem dey work explain di difference.

How long paper fit be

Talk di length for your request, like "12-page report". Nourva go follow am, reach di most wey dat kind of file fit hold. If you ask for pass dat, you go get di most. If you no talk any length, Word document or PDF go follow di level, and workbook go get several sheets.

LevelWord or PDF if you no talk di length
LowDi shortest
MidE long pass
MaxE long pass again
UltraDi longest

Add photos or files

Attach di material wey di paper go use build, like notes, photo of whiteboard or figures of last month.

  1. Tap + for di box.
  2. Choose Fotos, Camera or Files.
  3. Pick wetin you want.
  4. Write your request, then send am.

One message get limit for attachments, and di app go tell you when you reach am. If you never sign in, Nourva go ask you to sign in first. Di Scan row dey open di scanner instead; see Scan one paper.

Watch as dem dey make am

One card go show with di kind of file and im title. E dey show four steps in order: Outline, Write, Arrange and Check.

The Office fit draw pictures for di paper too: cover and one opening for each section, wey dem make for your topic. As e dey do am, di card go show I dey draw di pictures. To on or off di pictures, tap +, open Desk tools and use Pictures. Na for there you go set paper size, alignment, sources and di small Nourva mark too; see Set paper size, alignment, pictures and sources.

Document, workbook or PDF go still dey make even if you comot from di app or lock your phone. To hear when e don finish or e stop, keep Work don ready or e stop on under Settings › Notifications. If you tap di notification, e go open di finished paper, or e go tell you why e pause.

Stop, pause and continue

  1. Tap Stop for di card while e dey work.
  2. For di You sure? popup, tap Stop.

Di card go then show Don stop, with di step wey e reach, and e go show Continue. Tap Continue make e carry on, or write change for di box, wey now dey ask Change am, or continue….

Paper fit pause by itself too. Di card go then show E need you and Continue, and e go talk with words why e pause and wetin to do:

  • E don run pass wetin one round fit carry, or di work stop to answer: tap Continue and e go continue from di last page wey e save.
  • Your credit don finish: once you get credit again, tap Continue and e go continue from di last page wey e save.
  • Di paper don reach di most wey one document fit use: ask for am again for two smaller parts.
  • Today limit for documents don reach: continue am tomorrow.

Where to find your file

When di paper don ready, di card go show E don save for my files, one preview and three actions: Open, Send am go…, and ⋯ menu wey get Share and Change something. PDF dey show Sign am for there too. Paper wey dem make while you don sign in dey kept for My Files, wey you fit open from di front page of The Office or from di + sheet.

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