I would like to ask in all sincerity -- what features would motivate one to want to pay a subscription fee for Office when iworks is free? Even on the desktop I can only really justify Excel over iworks but on the iPad, I am not sure what I would do that would make me want to pay monthly.
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I'm lucky enough to have never needed to use office and to have always gotten away with some alternative - until yesterday when I *NEEDED* to print something out of office and absolutely could not figure out where the stupid print button was.
I finally just cut and pasted into wordpad and thankfully the formatting held.
Believe it or not it was a true life-or-death situation. It would make sense if you knew what my job was, which I'd prefer not to say.
Stupid ribbon.
What am I missing? The "pre iOS 7" and the "post iOS 7" versions look identical, except for the characteristic iOS 7 thinness.
They don't get mobile
Looks like a desktop app ported to a mobile platform. The whole mobile revolution is totally lost on Microsoft. It's not a desktop app with ribbons and a zillion buttons. If they didn't have serious market share and a proprietary file type on the desktop this would never have a chance. This is mediocrity and is the reason many people have had it with Microsoft products. They're also no fun and ugly as anything.
Looks like a desktop app ported to a mobile platform. The whole mobile revolution is totally lost on Microsoft. It's not a desktop app with ribbons and a zillion buttons. If they didn't have serious market share and a proprietary file type on the desktop this would never have a chance. This is mediocrity and is the reason many people have had it with Microsoft products. They're also no fun and ugly as anything.
I agree. I like that I finally can work on documents on different devices (iMac, Surface, Windows notebook, etc.) and have them preserved.
I think the apps are wicked, but I have no need to edit Office documents on an iPad. That's why I have full Windows for.
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One feature I really like on Word 2013 is Reading Mode. It allows you to arrange your document in book form for reading instead of the usual vertical scrolling. To me that one feature is worth paying for. I'm sure other people have found other features throughout the apps worth paying for.
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One feature I really like on Word 2013 is Reading Mode. It allows you to arrange your document in book form for reading instead of the usual vertical scrolling. To me that one feature is worth paying for. I'm sure other people have found other features throughout the apps worth paying for.
My guess is she likes iOS 6 over iOS 7 in general with the bezels around everything.
Regardless of the bitching of office 365 pricing, I payed $20 an year for 365 premium, office for iPad is quite an amazing software achievement on tablet
I have yet to run into an issue of not doing what I can on desktop, now release new damn office for mac for crying out loud
I have yet to run into an issue of not doing what I can on desktop, now release new damn office for mac for crying out loud
All of those are business-class software. The free software is also getting better. Gimp and fotor are decent photo editors for the basic stuff. Libreoffice, google documents, pages, and even the ms office cloud service are enough for K-12. Most universities seem to have cheap/free software for students. Then, your employer should provide the high-end software for you.
This is what MS is fighting, free software that is good enough for 90% of the population.
I have yet to meet anyone who dislikes the ribbon. It did a great job in clearing the older menu mess.
You'd be shocked at how many older folks hate the ribbon. They got used to the drop-down menus and goshdarnit they don't want any of these new-fangeled changes!
GET OFF MY LAWN!
LOL so true! Comment of the year!
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The design process "Lets just get really drunk and delete **** from the Xcode equivalent of css" if it's not black text on white, delete it
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The design process "Lets just get really drunk and delete **** from the Xcode equivalent of css" if it's not black text on white, delete it
Looks perfectly centered to me with the other icons, or is it not aligned by 1 pixel?
She should take advantage of Dynamic Type option in Settings to make font bigger. That wasn't even possible in iOS 6.
I think Google's implementation of it with Holo UI is the best of the 3 companies. MS is too minimalist and Apple is slightly better.