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1. #MICROSOFT WORD FOR IPAD FULL#
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For everyone else, it may come down to how much you use the Microsoft Office suite in your professional or personal life, and how much you plan on working on your iPad. It’s certainly the best iPad office suite I’ve tested to date.

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Office for iPad is a great addition, and you should definitely download it.

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This gets you five downloads of the full Office suite for Macs or PCs and five tablets.įor Office 365 subscribers, it’s a no-brainer. But, like Office Mobile, to really unlock the full potential of the suite (editing and creating documents), you need an Office 365 subscription, which starts at $99.99 per year for the Home Premium edition (students get a bit of a break with an $80 Office 365 University edition the $70 Office 365 Personal edition will also be supported when it launches later this spring). Office for iPad is free to download, and gives you the ability to read Word documents, work with Excel data and present PowerPoint presentations at no extra cost. I also ran into a couple of minor problems with formatting, and the Word app crashed on me twice. For one, the suite is only compatible with Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud service (previously known as SkyDrive), which will be a turnoff for those who store documents in other services like Google Drive or Dropbox. This isn’t a case of taking the iPhone app and stretching it to fit a larger screen, or just dumping the desktop apps onto the iPad.īut there are some issues (you knew there was a “but” coming, right?). I used it on my fourth-generation iPad to write this column, fill out an expense report, and create a PowerPoint presentation, among other things, and it was evident throughout that Microsoft worked to optimize the suite for the iPad. Like Office Mobile, though, the Outlook email client isn’t included, although Microsoft does offer an Outlook Web App for the iPad to get your emails.īuilt from the ground up, the suite offers robust functionality, and does a nice job of bringing the familiarity of the desktop suite into a touch-friendly iPad experience. With it, you can view, edit and create documents, collaborate with others, and work between your tablet and desktop. It works on iPads running iOS 7.0 or later. That’s why many were hoping for an iPad version, and it has long been rumored that Microsoft was working on a version for the world’s most popular tablet.Īvailable today from the iTunes Store, Office for iPad brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the tablet. And let’s be honest, trying to do any real work on the iPhone’s smaller screen sounds about as fun as giving a cat a bath. While it worked well, it offered limited functionality. When Microsoft released its Office Mobile app in June, it finally gave iPhone users a way to view and edit native Office documents on the go.