Cross-Screen Creator
Cross-Screen Creator turns Word documents into responsive reports that are comfortable to read on phones, tablets, and computers. Keep writing, reviewing, and collaborating in Microsoft Word, using the workflow you already know.
View a sample reportImportant documents have a job to do
An executive briefing, policy paper, research report, client recommendation, white paper, or advisory is created because someone needs to understand, decide, approve, align, or act.
A great deal of care goes into getting it right - what it says, how it's structured, whether it's accurate, and what the reader needs to understand. The reading experience is part of the communication.
Cross-Screen Creator is particularly well-suited to recurring reports that readers may first encounter on their phones.
Reading happens across screens
An important communication may be opened first on a phone, returned to later on a laptop, or read across several screens.
Adobe surveyed 1,000 employees from a variety of U.S. industries about how they use mobile devices for work.
46%
review documents on mobile devices
62%
say the smaller screen makes work difficult
36%
do mobile work while traveling
Source: Adobe—Mobile Devices are Shaping the Modern Workday
Same communication. Different reading experience.
Fixed page PDF on a phone
Responsive report on a phone
How Cross-Screen Creator works
Write and structure in Word
Use the familiar authoring and workflow you already know.
Prepare for responsive reading
The software transforms the presentation for changing screen sizes.
Create a responsive report
The report adapts to the available reading space.
Cross-Screen Creator can also produce a fixed-layout PDF as an alternative to the responsive report.
Your documents stay on your computer. Cross-Screen Creator does not upload your content to an external server.
Responsive elements are designed to work across screens
The Word template includes a small set of responsive elements for structuring information that benefits from a more visual presentation. Use them when they genuinely make the communication clearer.
See the responsive elements →
The sample report, The Changing Reading Environment, tells the story behind Cross-Screen Creator—and is itself an example of the responsive reading experience.
Try it on your computer and your phone and see how it adapts to each screen.
Scan to open on your phone
See the Word document used to create this publication.
From Word document to responsive publication
Start with the Cross-Screen Creator Word Template.
The template provides the document structure and responsive elements designed to work across different screen sizes.
Use your familiar Word workflow.
Write, revise, comment, use Track Changes, circulate drafts, and complete your normal review and approval process in Microsoft Word.
Create the responsive report.
When the communication is ready, open the Word document in Cross-Screen Creator, review the result, and create the finished responsive report.
Cross-Screen Creator — Marketplace
$10 per user / month
Licensed per user through Microsoft Marketplace.
Licenses can be assigned and reassigned by your organization's Microsoft 365 administrator.