Your NOOK Tablet can do double-duty as a work tablet, letting you view Office documents including Word files (.doc, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm), Excel files, (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm), PowerPoint files (.ppt, .pptx, .pptm, .pps, .ppsx, .ppsm, .pot. potx, .potm), and plain text files. (txt).
As with audio files, pictures, and videos, you’ll first have to get them on your NOOK Tablet via email (Handling Other Attachments), by downloading from the Web (Tip), or by transferring them from your computer (Transferring Files to Your NOOK Tablet).
To view the files, you don’t first launch an app. Instead, you browse to where you’ve put them. To do that, in the Library, tap “My stuff”→My Files and tap My NOOK or Memory Card, depending on where you’ve stored the files. So if you’ve stored your files in the Documents folder, tap My Files→Documents to get to a list of them.
Tip
If you’ve downloaded files from the Web, you’ll find them on the NOOK Tablet’s built-in memory, not on its microSD card. Get to them by tapping My Files→My Downloads.
Tap any file, and it opens in an app built into the NOOK Tablet called Quickoffice Lite. This app lets you view Office files, but not edit them. Two small icons appear at the bottom of the screen. The left one is a back button; the right one pops up a menu that has different features depending on the file you’re viewing. For example, in a Word document you can search within the file, go to a specific page number, change the view between print mode and draft mode, and get more information about the file (file name, author, size, and so on). On a PowerPoint document you can jump to a specific slide number or play an entire presentation.
If viewing documents isn’t enough for you, you can pay to upgrade to the Pro version, which costs $14.99. Download it from the NOOK Store, or tap the menu icon at the bottom of the screen and tap “Upgrade to Pro.”