Which app to get for basic Word and Excel editing?

Just get pages and numbers, and good reader for PDFs

 

Kind of. They work but you might lose some formatting.

 

Yes, and remember, Google is your friend...

 

You can import Word and Excel documents into Pages and Numbers if the files are on your iDisk. You can then export them as PDFs or DOC and XLS files. If the original files have a lot of formatting you might prefer something like QuickOffice HD which has native support for Word and Excel files and can be used with DropBox. Personally I prefer working with the iWorks programs but they do have some limitations.

 

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I'm a longtime user of Documents To Go. Curious about Quickoffice, particularly the save as PDF feature, so I bought it last night. My initial impression is that, at least for Word files, DTG is a more robust solution. There was certain formatting in the files I viewed that was rendered faithfully in DTG but not QO. The remote server access feature in DTG also enables you to view the files offline (at least the ones you've viewed once). I couldn't see a way to do this in QO short of actually saving a copy of the file from the cloud and onto your local folder.

 

Does docs to go have a searchfeature where you can search the text of the word doc...I had incorrectlyassumed thi was standard and was disappointed to find it missing in quick office...