The Office 700 app has come a long way in the past year. Unless you need the Excel macros or some obscure feature in Word, it’s a good alternative in the Open Office ecosystem.
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Microsoft Office App Released for iPhone, Combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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It's free with IAP, I have a work related email/microsoft account with 5 licences, is it possible to get this to work with it?
Cheers
Edit: Just downloaded Office, seems to work well, already signed in upon opening, nice.
So...it does work in my case without IAP.
Cheers
Edit: Just downloaded Office, seems to work well, already signed in upon opening, nice.
So...it does work in my case without IAP.
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No worries, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are still individual apps. And they're free. And they're better than any garbage Microsuck has ever put out.
The one I really don't understand is Powerpoop. I mean, a word processor or spreadsheet isn't exactly new or interesting, and Apple has been better at it since AppleWorks back on the ][. But Keynote is (and has always been) so far ahead of Powerpoop that I just can't imagine why anybody would ever use anything else on a Mac.
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Sure. https://www.apple.com/iwork/
One for the Mac Rumours hive mind - what counts as a "premium feature" that requires (sorry, FORCES) you to subscribe?
In other words, what is broken in the app that stops free users using it.
In other words, what is broken in the app that stops free users using it.
That would be clunky and waste storage space because people use Outlook alone without using Office. This would be people who use consumer Outlook.com e-mail (a.k.a Hotmail) or have an on-premises Exchange server. Microsoft themselves are pushing Office 365 plans with communications tools only for "firstline workers", e.g. retail and factory workers.
Can't find it in the App Store. Search "Microsoft Office" and it isn't there. Tried way down the list of results but not there.
Though I wonder whether that's the case with multitasking on an iPad. Are you better off with two instance of "office" or one instance each of excel and word, for example? I would guess the former, but we won't know until it's released.
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tap on any microsoft app, then click on "microsoft corporation" at the top, and you'll get a list of all microsoft apps, including the resurrected Office app.
Agree on Keynote vs PowerPoint for the most part but did you forget the /s (sarcasm tag) regarding Pages/Numbers because those apps are most certainly not unequivocally better than their Microsoft counterparts (especially the Windows versions.)
While Pages is very good at page layout type work and generally creates nicer looking documents, as an actual word processor it's functional but nowhere near MS Word for working with complex documents.
Numbers... well... I mean it can create nice looking documents and has better support for embedded media but... for real work there's just not contest with Excel. More functions, more features, more expandable, more intuitive, works with more languages, hell Excel is even easier to use IMHO.
Maybe you were just talking about the mobile versions. Even the Mac versions, for all their flaws (for starters they're so damn slow its often faster to run the Windows version in a VM) still trump using the iWork suite (aside from Keynote)
Numbers and Pages don't work if your work involves sharing documents with other people, courts, etc. and if you use advanced features of Word and Excel. Keynote can keep up with (and in some cases exceed) PowerPoint, but still has the sharing issue.
I haven't been in high school for a while now, but when I was, I would literally do an entire homework assignment I "forgot (read: was too lazy to do at home)" in the hallway before class started, then just emailed it off to the teacher saying I chose to send the assignment there. Office on iPhone helped a lot with that in the 3G/3GS days. I still passed the classes and graduated, so everything worked out. Thank you Microsoft Office on iPhone!
Unfortunately my employers' deep love for hp laptops and Microsoft apps in the end make my choices.
There isn't really any other choice as while Powerpoint is nothing to write home about, Word and particularly Excel just mop the floor with other apps.
Microsoft is killing it under CEO Nadella.
So much more focussed and open.
I wish Apple would be a bit more inclusive.
Apple Music on Android is a start.
So much more focussed and open.
I wish Apple would be a bit more inclusive.
Apple Music on Android is a start.
Forget about the iPhone. Even the iPad version is too bare bone. You can’t use it for Excel 101 class.
Coming from separate apps, is there anything that I would give up in terms of functionality if I were to switch to the new, unified app? On the flip side, is there any new functionality introduced (i.e. better pivot table support, linked sheets, etc.)? I am particularly interested in Excel (my primary use), with Word and PowerPoint being a distant second and third. Ideally, parity with the desktop app would be a nice goal...
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It doesn't look like anything is missing. There is some new stuff, like ways to OCR text, produce PDFs from files, etc.
Agree totally. I know they bought Accompli years back but Outlook has become a pretty solid app with a good design.
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This is a good app for those who want viewing capabilities on their phones. Combines 4 apps - Lens, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. At 350 MB for iPhone 8, it is good versus the individual apps (for viewing). There is also the Notes functionality.
However, since I only need Lens at the moment which is 51 MB, this is overkill. But, again, gigabytes saved when compared to what we had to use prior to this unified solution just for viewing. I do not work much in .xlsx and .docx formats anymore so I do not need this and can work with just Lens.
Good move by Microsoft and the app has a nice design for its purpose.
However, since I only need Lens at the moment which is 51 MB, this is overkill. But, again, gigabytes saved when compared to what we had to use prior to this unified solution just for viewing. I do not work much in .xlsx and .docx formats anymore so I do not need this and can work with just Lens.
Good move by Microsoft and the app has a nice design for its purpose.
MS Office is a requirement if you work in an office deemed a "Microsoft Shoppe", so at my corporate job there's no escape — but for personal matters? C'mon now, don't be silly... It's Google Drive, Google Drive, Google Drive; it's 100% cloud-based, super reliable and super intuitive, backwards compatible with anything legacy MS, and oh, it's free.