Quickoffice also integrates seamlessly with Google Drive storage so you can safely access your files from anywhere
And Google has a long history of abandoning products such that I try to avoid them now.
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Google Releases New Universal 'Quickoffice' iOS App for Free
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And Google has a long history of abandoning products such that I try to avoid them now.
This is huge. The formatting options aren't really extensive, but I love this. It lets you save and email Office 2007+ files (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), can back up on Google Drive, and can work while offline. Once I logged in with my Google account, I turned off my Wifi and it still opens and works great when offline. That is a huge deal, to me.
You also have the option of opening files in it from the Mail app.
The fact that this is free is great.
You also have the option of opening files in it from the Mail app.
The fact that this is free is great.
I tested and once you log in the first time, you can open it and do anything you want (Other than backing up in Google Drive or Emailing documents) when offline.
The only abandon the ones that aren't really popular or redundant. I wish you guys get over it already. Life would be much more enjoyable for you.
Also, their Excel editor is garbage. Only the most basic functions are available, and forget about formatting.
I realize this is a mobile app and will never be as powerful as Excel, but it's so limited, it's painfully frustrating to use.
You should also remember that this app is Free, whereas an Office Suite is around $130.
I agree and it doesn't matter if your prefer iPhone or Android, the competition is good for us, the consumers.
By the way, there are a few free Apps out there that can edit Office documents, but most of them have a paid upgrade option.
Apple really needs to get on the ball with iCloud and give us a way to share documents with other iCloud users. I like the iWork apps, but there are just too many times I can't use them because currently the "file sharing" model (read: email the document to the other person) is stuck in 1990.
It's weird, I moved away completely from all Google Apps including GMail recently, but then I see this and it's tempting.
Naaaaa, I'm good.
Naaaaa, I'm good.
Quickoffice... I wonder if this is what Microsoft Office Mobile should have been? Or not even in the same league as MS Office-anything?
Hmmm. Google seem to have pretty much killed Quickoffice with this release. As someone who paid for Quickoffice Pro HD, which Google have pulled from the app store, this free version is a poor substitute.
When opening an Excel format spreadsheet stored on Google Drive the app now says I can view it in QuickOffice but if I want to edit it I have to open it in the Google Drive app whereas before I could edit it directly in QuickOffice Pro. Also, they're removed support for Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Catch, SugarSync, Huddle and Egnyte. It makes me wonder what other features I'd find have been taken out if I were to use it much more.
I'd hoped when the iPad first came out, perhaps rather naively, that having QuickOffice and Dataviz (both independent at the time) as the two big players in the mobile office suite market would create a sort of arms race between them and mean that the products would evolve very rapidly. In fact the pace of innovation has been pretty pathetic and with QuickOffice now seeming to go backwards, and Dataviz's DocumentsToGo now owned by RIM and hardly ever being updated on iOS, I can't see the situation improving.
I much preferred QuickOffice's UI but it isn't an all-in-one solution anymore so I think DocumentsToGo needs to get promoted to my home screen as my primary office app now.
As an added insult the new QuickOffice doesn't present itself as a target for an "Open In..." operation from the old QuickOffice HD Pro app and of course it doesn't offer to import any files held locally in the old QuickOffice HD Pro app (maybe iOS restrictions prevent that) so I've yet to work out a good way to get my old files stored locally in the new app if was going to carry on using it.
It's bye bye to QuickOffice for me I think.
When opening an Excel format spreadsheet stored on Google Drive the app now says I can view it in QuickOffice but if I want to edit it I have to open it in the Google Drive app whereas before I could edit it directly in QuickOffice Pro. Also, they're removed support for Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Catch, SugarSync, Huddle and Egnyte. It makes me wonder what other features I'd find have been taken out if I were to use it much more.
I'd hoped when the iPad first came out, perhaps rather naively, that having QuickOffice and Dataviz (both independent at the time) as the two big players in the mobile office suite market would create a sort of arms race between them and mean that the products would evolve very rapidly. In fact the pace of innovation has been pretty pathetic and with QuickOffice now seeming to go backwards, and Dataviz's DocumentsToGo now owned by RIM and hardly ever being updated on iOS, I can't see the situation improving.
I much preferred QuickOffice's UI but it isn't an all-in-one solution anymore so I think DocumentsToGo needs to get promoted to my home screen as my primary office app now.
As an added insult the new QuickOffice doesn't present itself as a target for an "Open In..." operation from the old QuickOffice HD Pro app and of course it doesn't offer to import any files held locally in the old QuickOffice HD Pro app (maybe iOS restrictions prevent that) so I've yet to work out a good way to get my old files stored locally in the new app if was going to carry on using it.
It's bye bye to QuickOffice for me I think.
I paid something like $15 for Quickoffice a few years ago, so my experience is with the paid version, not the Google-bastardized version.
And I'm not asking to have all the functionality of MS Office. Just the normal stuff that practically every spreadsheet user needs.
Regardless, what good is an app with so little functionality? For all that it can do, I could just type numbers into an email and add them up in my head.
I'm sure it's just a matter of time, I completely expected it to be free at some point and this probably will only accelerate that.
Wow, I musta been under a rock. I'm still using Quickoffice Pro HD, and don't even recall hearing about the Google take over. 
If I download this new app, I wonder if my iPad will see it as a completely separate app, or if it'll overwrite my Pro HD app. It'd be nice to try before I "buy", so to speak. Anyone out there have any experience with this?
BTW, free storage for a limited time is not free storage so much as an underhanded way to sell storage 2 years from now.
If I download this new app, I wonder if my iPad will see it as a completely separate app, or if it'll overwrite my Pro HD app. It'd be nice to try before I "buy", so to speak. Anyone out there have any experience with this?
BTW, free storage for a limited time is not free storage so much as an underhanded way to sell storage 2 years from now.
maybe but I suspect that in 2 years the default entry (free) point for Google drive, box, dropbox etc will be at least 50GB so I'm not going to worry about it.
Wow some of you are such bitter snobs. Get over it.
Google this and Google that and Google molests my data and Google ate my dog and Google stole my wife...
MS Office - great; iWorks - great; Quickoffice - great; 3 different "office" methods to choose from yet some people...never happy.
Google this and Google that and Google molests my data and Google ate my dog and Google stole my wife...
MS Office - great; iWorks - great; Quickoffice - great; 3 different "office" methods to choose from yet some people...never happy.
The only two products I can think of that they've abandoned that ended up being controversial were Wave and Reader. Of those two, only Reader had achieved any sort of widespread popularity, and even that was pretty fringe.
If it ends up being widely used, Google won't abandon it. Since Drive is not only looking pretty popular, but also tied in closely with a bunch of their Android services, I seriously doubt they're gonna drop it.
What about a year from now when they finally integrate everything from QuickOffice with their Drive App and decide to discontinue QuickOffice? It could very well happen.