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Quickoffice for iPad. Anyone using it?
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I'm using docs to go in 2x mode. I hear that dataviz will release an iPad version but they tend to be slow. Don't know about quick office but I suspect it will try to get around the gimpy limitations of the iPad similar to what docs to go does. Docs to go can read and write from google docs. This means you can read, modify, write in one program which apple seems bound and determined to block on all iPhones, iPod touches and iPads.
In iTunes I had seen iPad listed in the Quickoffice description and was hoping it was more than simply running the current iPhone app in iPad.
That 2x zoom I saw in the Nasa app on the iPad was substandard and I suspect any 2x zoomed app will look equally substandard
That 2x zoom I saw in the Nasa app on the iPad was substandard and I suspect any 2x zoomed app will look equally substandard
I'm wondering if DropBox, once released, used in conjunction with Quickoffice or iWork on the iPad, will be an easy workaround for the file-sharing issues?
i bought it for my ipad (don't own iphone/touch) since on the website it says it's compatible. It's not. So I wasted $15. However I emailed them and they said they are working on it!
Hopefully they let me just upgrade or that would make me feel screwed hehe
Hopefully they let me just upgrade or that would make me feel screwed hehe
Yes, and I feel ripped off. Load of rubish. Docs2Go and iWork are both exponentially better.
Word-processing wise, it's beyond pathetic. I hate the UI first of all, Pages has a beautiful toolbar and Docs2Go has some more functional bars...QuickOffice Word is barebones only offering you font colour, paragraph formatting, font, size, and one or two other things as options...and that is it. Text is blurry, external bluetooth support is pathetic (lags, no arrow key support)...Dropbox compability is limited (you can't view downloaded files offline LOL).
I feel cheated so bad. It's worthless for me, feels so rushed, almost like a panic because Docs2Go was released and stealing the spotlight. I don't know about Excel, but I know someone who laughed when he downloaded it...he says Numbers is better. A review on iTunes suggests that the powerpoint viewer is crippled and garbles powerpoints on import.
Avoid, imo.
haha, good enough for me, I'll stick with Pages then, thanks
Always glad to help
Doesn't mean that future updates can't fix any of my described shortcomings...they can for sure, and if they do, I'll have no problem going back.
Did you intend on using Office docs on iPad, or were you just looking at an alternative to Pages?
Always glad to help
Doesn't mean that future updates can't fix any of my described shortcomings...they can for sure, and if they do, I'll have no problem going back.
Did you intend on using Office docs on iPad, or were you just looking at an alternative to Pages?
I have it for iPhone. Now I see it won't be universal anyway so forget about it lol.
If you have text in the clipboard and try to paste it in a new QO doc, you can't get the paste button to appear without typing something first. It's a forgivable bug. But the whole zooming-bouncing experience is off-putting on its own.
It's a fair bet that none of the people involved in developing this app would actually use it for office work themselves.
It's a fair bet that none of the people involved in developing this app would actually use it for office work themselves.
I have just created a text file and also created a new folder in my Dropbox account using Quickoffice
Thanks guys. Bought it just now and seems to work. No SugarSync support it looks like, but I have a free dropbox account. Wish this QuickOffice would have come out for ipad sooner, would've saved $15 from buying Documents to Go which doesn't seem to have .txt or folder create support! Also like how QuickOffice has password protect support for the app.