MS Office type app
Hello all, this might have been discussed before, but as I only recently purchased my private iPad2 I am now considering to buy some apps (rather than using only free and lite versions). Can you recommend an app that works a long the lines of MS Office programmes? I am after word processing and spreadsheets mainly.
Many thanks!
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- Innes Kennard (View all users posts) 02 Jul 2012 6:28pm (325 days ago)
Hi Monika
Pages, Numbers and Keynote I would guess. Integrate well with many apps including Dropbox.
- Monika Kern (View all users posts) 18 Jul 2012 9:53am (309 days ago)
Hi Innes, any issues with these working with MS Office docs? I am thinking of using the iPad as an alternative to the laptop so might have to swap files between the two of them. THX!!
- Bevan (View all users posts) 18 Jul 2012 4:51pm (309 days ago)
Will pages open a word doc from dropbox?
- Karen Melhuish Spencer (View all users posts) 18 Jul 2012 7:54pm (309 days ago)
I've found that when I open a word doc in my Dropbox I am given the option to open it in Pages - no problem:-)
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 19 Jul 2012 12:31pm (308 days ago)
For basic word processing I would ditch Microsoft Office, use Chrome on the iPad and give Google a go.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/chrome/id535886823?mt=8
I read somewhere that Microsoft are working on Office for iPad but who knows!
Otherwise for Word Processing I use Pages cos it works so well with the rest of the iPad.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8
And the same files can be emailed to my laptop and I can continue working on them if I need to.
- Monika Kern (View all users posts) 20 Jul 2012 10:28am (307 days ago)
Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming!
I'll try Chrome first as it's free - have not worked with Dropbox before. I've always been a bit worried about Google Docs but as pretty much everyone is using them I'll try lol
- Innes Kennard (View all users posts) 20 Jul 2012 7:16pm (307 days ago)
I agree with Allanah 8-}
Pages is designed to work on the iPad and has many WP features not present in GDs. It has a good 'internal' file structure, will read, edit and export (email) Word documents as well as Pages. Can also export as PDFs is that is important. I use Box, open a file and click Read in Pages and all is go.
- iDave (View all users posts) 24 Jul 2012 2:50pm (303 days ago)
Hi Monika
Cloudon is now available in the New Zealand app store. I use it with my Google Docs account. It is probably the nearest thing to Office right now and looks it too! Worth a look and free. It is a cloud based app though.
- Dave (View all users posts) 24 Jul 2012 2:54pm (303 days ago)
Yes, Cloudon looks good and is free. Pages if you want to have all the apple intergration goodness.
- Melissa Moore (View all users posts) 26 Jul 2012 10:21am (301 days ago)
I have just downloaded Pages and Dropbox, can someone please tell me how to put a Pages doc in to Dropbox?
Many thanks
- David Rankin (View all users posts) 31 Jul 2012 10:24pm (295 days ago)
I use CloudOn which gives me microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs to work on and then save them in Dropbox. Easy as with a real nice interface.
- Monika Kern (View all users posts) 14 May 2013 10:56am (9 days ago)
It's been a while and I've worked lots on iPad and iPad mini since the initial question. I am using Google Drive now, also OneNote which works brilliantly for sharing notes between the iPad mini (which nowadays lives in my handbag lol) and the laptop via SkyDrive, and I have finally just downloaded CloudOn (linked with Dropbox so far, but could also link with Google Drive, SkyDrive etc.).
However, yesterday one of my teachers asked me for an app - not Pages, she didn't like the reviews on it - which would allow her to create word docs (incl. tables) to prepare for the next term's work while she travels overseas in the July holidays. Only problem: She expects to be offline most of the time.
- Google Drive app does not seem to allow creation of documents offline
- CloudOn logs you out as soon as you are offline (and does not let you log back in until you are online - requests for this to change on their website since early 2012!)
- OneNote does not have the features she is looking.
Is there any thing else she could look at, or is it Pages after all?
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 14 May 2013 11:08am (9 days ago)
I use Pages and then email it to my PC. She could also share it to Google docs when she is online.
As a basic word processor I'm happy with Pages. Haven't tried other types of doc mind you.
- Innes Kennard (View all users posts) 14 May 2013 1:13pm (9 days ago)
Hi Monika
I have been in the States for five weeks with only my iPad! A few little challenges but have used Pages to open Word attachments, edit them and then email as Word or PDF or Pages - no problem. I carry a range of masters and just duplicate and rename.
Works off line and then I go crazy when i get to a motel wifi. Easy file structurE.
i use GD occasionally when online howver most of what I do is with discrete documents so will stick with Pages in the main.
looking forward to getting home to a bit more screen real estate but very little that could not be done 8-)
- Klaris Philipson (View all users posts) 14 May 2013 12:51pm (9 days ago)
Hi,
Ive been ising DocsToGo.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/iphone/
Its great as you can open and edit all key microsoft docs..
its a bit like Evernote/Google drive /dropbox in that you can also setup a sync feature.
K
- Kevin Byrne (View all users posts) 14 May 2013 1:26pm (9 days ago)
Likewise I've used DocstoGo Pro since Palm Pilot days - now with iPhone & iPad. It links well with Dropbox which is my goto cloud storage for non sensitive documents. Also useful to have powerpoints on a device whilst presenting. However Pages and Numbers seem a lot easier to use and my understanding is it will link well with MS Office.
Kevin