I don't think there's any question that eventually iOS versions may be on par with desktop versions or close to it. That can't be too far off into the future.
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Full Version of Microsoft Office on iPad?
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I don't think there's any question that eventually iOS versions may be on par with desktop versions or close to it. That can't be too far off into the future.
I don't think they will be considering MacOS office doesn't even offer everything Windows does, I doubt they would bother improving it any on iPad. I just use Google Docs,Sheets, and Slides
No reason why they couldn't be now; it's not a power problem. I think the limited feature set is by design, to make it easier to use with a touch-based interface.
They do seem to be adding features right now, drawing lines around cells and perhaps more.
One of my annoyances with word/excel was that the pencil would draw always, you couldn't scroll or select. There now is a rectangular sign button that lets me select cells or words.
It might have been by design. But they are adding features, making word/excel a little better every time.
One of my annoyances with word/excel was that the pencil would draw always, you couldn't scroll or select. There now is a rectangular sign button that lets me select cells or words.
It might have been by design. But they are adding features, making word/excel a little better every time.
This, they won't allow it. MS wants you to buy Surface and Apple doesn't seem to care about a professional iWork suite.
Yes, it IS by design... partially because, as you said, it is not easy to provide consistent and easy navigation to all of the features within a touch-based interface, but also because Microsoft wants the premiere Office experience to be on Windows.
MS Office for iPad has virtually perfect file presentation/display of "advanced" files created with the desktop version of Office. But it is not capable of PRODUCING those more advanced files.
I tried living with Google Apps on iOS for a while, it was ok for me. I found all the Android user experience functions a bit odd, but serviceable. Slides has multi-select (something I deeply miss in PowerPoint) but other than that, Microsoft Office for iOS is better across the board for me.Google Docs my friendI mean it works for me as I'm writing papers nothing fancy
One thing that works way better from the Google Apps is saving and using files on a Google Drive. It just works. For some reason, it's still not quite right saving documents to a Google Drive from Microsoft Office for iOS. It looks like it works, but it doesn't. I always need to save to an intermediate place, like Dropbox, and then upload to Google Drive if I want my changes saved properly.
Yah cross crossing apps doesn't usually work the best unfortunately and since my schools stuff is all tied into google it was the obvious choice to keep it all in one place and organized simply
[doublepost=1520777601][/doublepost]I frequently edit Word documents with macros, do you know if the iPad Pro word will do that? My MacBook will but my iPad Air 2 won’t
They are essentially the same version so I don’t think you can let macro works on your iPad.
Macros won't work. Here's a good comparison of features on different platforms:
https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...latforms-5e00dfba-3d7c-4222-b850-a0527ff7b066
Good link... but be careful. That chart is highly misleading as to what features are actually available on the iOS and Android versions. For example, all versions are marked as having the "Making Lists" feature but the depth of that feature varies greatly by platform. For Android and iOS, the "Making Lists" feature is roughly the same as the list feature available when creating posts here on MacRumors. (yes, that is a bit of hyperbole, but only a "bit")
What is frustrating is things that you think should work, don't. Like adding Tables of Contents and Creating and Editing Styles. Macros, I can get because of sandboxing/scripting/etc. issues, but where Office for iPad falls down, it does so spectacularly.
That said, I cannot find a single app that creates Tables of Contents in this format. Word, Google Docs, and Pages all lack this feature.
That said, I cannot find a single app that creates Tables of Contents in this format. Word, Google Docs, and Pages all lack this feature.
on a corporate level, working as an analyst, controller, or anything serious with office, forget mac. I'm sorry it sounds harsh, I love working on my mac, but forget it.
Apple employees don't work on office for mac or iWork, they work in winoffice via VMware. So don't go through the pain of working with office for mac yourself.
If you do anything other than that, mac office or even iOS office might be fine.
Apple employees don't work on office for mac or iWork, they work in winoffice via VMware. So don't go through the pain of working with office for mac yourself.
If you do anything other than that, mac office or even iOS office might be fine.
At a corporate level expect to use something like Citrix or what ever they have thought off, but not working directly on a machine itself.
True, but there are certain rules set on what's installed and what not on that (citrix) environment, depending on the company you work for and the environment you work in (resources?). Very often any kind of ad hoc analysis happens outside of that environment as they need to be only shared with specific people for example. then they start using power query, power pivot and whatnot. Which are all not available for mac/ios
Then there are all the platforms for which you don't need such an environment that you can access locally, like Sharepoint. Have you tried sharepoint for iOS?
Imagine the workflows in iOS you have to pull off, even in macOS it's already annoying.
at this point what's the use of office for iPad, watching pretty excel graphics like in their advertisements. It's pretty sad but after years of corporate experience I'm about to give on mac, for personal use I still love it.
If they can't pull it off for their own employees, no way we can pull it off as a customer.
I think that some have oversold what MS Office for iPad can do. It wasn't intentional, but for their needs it appears to do everything that they are able to do on the desktop version of Office.
Realistically speaking, Office for iPad should be considered to be an "Office file viewer" with ability to make basic edits. It does an admirable job of accurately displaying Office files (provided that any custom fonts used are installed locally on the iPad). Comments can be added and mild updates can be made. That is essentially it. It is not possible to create moderate to advanced documents with Office for iPad.
I heavily use different productivity suites on different platforms: MS Office, LibreOffice, iWork (latest), iWork '09, Google Docs (are the key ones I use). I have found the mobile versions of all productivity suites to be sorely lacking. They're "ok" for mild edits and updates but that is about it.
The web version of MS Office is surprisingly good and provides a more pleasant experience using it on a chromebook than using Office for iPad on my 12.9 iPad Pro.