And all three apps are all well-designed, look a lot less cluttered than their Windows counterparts, and oh, the irony, are much more touch-friendly than MS Office on Windows 8 devices. Yes, some might complain that they do not get a grammar check, but honestly, these are very decent applications for those who love to juggle documents, spreadsheets and presentations on their iPads. PowerPoint comes with a slew of templates and the option to insert images in your presentation. Word is likely to be the most used of the apps here, and it comes stacked with spell spell check, word count, templates, loads of formatting options and praise be, the option to mark revisions and add comments, making it as close to an editor’s tool on the iPad as we have seen.Įxcel comes with supports for charts and formulas, and most interestingly, with a special keyboard that let’s you mess around with formulas and functions. No, we will not be so naive as to say that we expected a carbon copy of the Windows version of MS Office on our iPads, but in terms of features and functions, Messrs Word, Excel and PowerPoint do deliver a fair bit of productivity bang. Whatever you accuse the big M of, it certainly cannot be saving on features. We could dedicate reams and reams (or should that be ‘screens and screens’) of text on each app here, but we are going to choose to be succinct here. Nope, there is no “pay once and use for life option” out here, but more on that later. Want to step into the land of creating new files and editing existing ones? Ah, you will then have to part with money for a monthly or annual Office365 registration – Home Premium stands at USD 9.99 for a month, although there is a USD 6.99 plan on the way too. Each tips the scales at 200 MB plus and if all you intend to do with them is ogle documents, share them and cut and paste content from them, then they are free as well. The suite comes in the form of three apps that can be downloaded separately – MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. Yes, there have been mobile office suites around for more than a decade now, but for many, it ain’t Office unless it comes from Redmond. For some people, the release of Microsoft’s MS Office suite on the iPad removes the last barrier that stood between a tablet and productivity.
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