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It seems so.
I've not actually tried it, but according to Apple you shouldn't have a problem:
I've not actually tried it, but according to Apple you shouldn't have a problem:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/numbers.htmlApple on Numbers for iPad said:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/pages.htmlApple on Pages for iPad said:
He-he... I noticed that they say "open" end not "edit", but assumed that when you've opened it, you can also edit it (that it's not a just a reader).
I'll see if I cannot do an experiment with Numbers on my iPhone and an excel file. Gimme a few minutes. (Unless someone chimes in with an answer either way in the mean time.)
Edit: It seems to have worked.
I exported an Excel file from Numbers on my Mac (I don't have Excel), emailed it to myself, opened it up in Numbers on my iPhone, added a number to one cell, and emailed it back to myself as an Excel file, looked at it in QuickLook to confirm the addition was there.
I'll see if I cannot do an experiment with Numbers on my iPhone and an excel file. Gimme a few minutes. (Unless someone chimes in with an answer either way in the mean time.)
Edit: It seems to have worked.
I exported an Excel file from Numbers on my Mac (I don't have Excel), emailed it to myself, opened it up in Numbers on my iPhone, added a number to one cell, and emailed it back to myself as an Excel file, looked at it in QuickLook to confirm the addition was there.
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thank you very much - appreciate that!
planning our wedding atm and we use the ipad for all of our lists etc and take it to the venues and suppliers to take notes
BUT
my excel spreadsheet of costings and amounts is on my mac at home - if i had the excel on my ipad it would be perfect!
planning our wedding atm and we use the ipad for all of our lists etc and take it to the venues and suppliers to take notes
BUT
my excel spreadsheet of costings and amounts is on my mac at home - if i had the excel on my ipad it would be perfect!
No problem.thank you very much - appreciate that!
As I said in the edit above, it worked.
And - as an added bonus - the new universal Numbers and Pages now works on the iPhone in addition to the iPad, so if you have an iPhone and needs to do a quick and dirty revision, you can.
Of course it the Excel files contains lots of macros and stuff, then all bets are off...
There have been some rumors about MS making an iOS/iPad version of Office, but if there's anything in that, I don't know. (And even if it were, MS isn't the fastest working company in the World.)
You don't need to email it. You can share it in iTunes, see "Using File Sharing to send a file TO/FROM Keynote, Pages, or Numbers for iPad" on : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4088
- Olaf
When you share it back to iTunes, it will ask what format you want to save it in: Numbers, PDF or Excel. If you pick Excel it will create an Excel Spreadsheet that you can grab from iTunes. When you've finished your editing, drop the Excel file back into iTunes and re-open it in Numbers
If you have MobileMe, you can also do the same thing to a MobileMe iDisk and do the sharing over the air
Finally, if you have a WebDav account (such as Microsoft SkyDrive, Sharepoint or Dropbox with the DropDav 3rd party add-on), you can share over the air with those too
The answer depends, very much, on how complicated the Word and Excel documents are.
For instance, Word or Excel files with lots of macros, Visual Basic coding, or obscure (proprietary) Microsoft image or video files attached probably aren't going to work very well. And you may notice that the Fonts used in Pages aren't always an exact match for those in Word.
But for most spreadsheets and word processing files the average user is going to encounter, I've found that Pages and Numbers seem to work very well opening, editing, and creating their Office Suite counterparts.
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You can if you create a dropdav account at http://dropdav.com: you connect via WebDAV in numbers to dav.dropdav.com. The only downside is it costs $5 a month. For me, it's well worth it but it may not be for everyone
Danny133 said:i have dropbox .. just cant edit with that which is a shame
You can if you create a dropdav account at http://dropdav.com: you connect via WebDAV in numbers to dav.dropdav.com. The only downside is it costs $5 a month. For me, it's well worth it but it may not be for everyone
A free alternative to dropdav (and their new pricing structure) I discovered from someone on this forum is DropDAV (Limited). You can find their sign-up at:
https://dropdav.appspot.com/
I just linked my dropbox account to it and so far it works fine thru pages/numbers/keynote for the iphone and ipad. I'm not a heavy user, so for the limited amount I use it, "free" is much better!!
OP: Numbers does what you are looking for on the iPad. Only limitation I found is the lack of support for Pivot Tables (highly important for me). Also, some table formatting is usually out of proportion for complicated tables (by complicated I mean tables that have more than just plain text or numbers).
Merged cells is another thing Numbers doesn't like. I've had loads of alerts when first opening converted files saying merged cells have been unmerged.
The iPhone and iPad apps are downloaded together, so if you purchased one, you have it for both devices. What SUCKS IMHO is that if you purchase iWork for your Mac, they do not automatically give you the iPhone/iPad app for free, which IMHO they should. To expect someone to $90 for iWork to use it on your Mac and iPad is insane.