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kavuky

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Hello, I'm thinking of renewing my first generation iPad Pro. I want the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. For the use of office, Word, Excel... what opinions do you have? Normal use

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rui no onna

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Light Word and Excel is fine.

Personally, I can't use the iPad for a lot of my work requiring Excel. For one thing, I still get plenty of emails with Office 2003 versions of files (.doc & .xls). Office for iPadOS doesn't offer backwards compatibility for those. It's also missing features such as Pivot Tables, etc.
 
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JD2015

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Hello, I'm thinking of renewing my first generation iPad Pro. I want the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. For the use of office, Word, Excel... what opinions do you have? Normal use

Thanks
Would say Google productivity suite and or Apple's are better overall on the Ipad.
Light Word and Excel is fine.

Personally, I can't use the iPad for a lot of my work requiring Excel. For one thing, I still get plenty of emails with Office 2003 versions of files (.doc & .xls). Office for iPadOS doesn't offer backwards compatibility for those. It's also missing features such as Pivot Tables, etc.
Microsoft really limits the Ipad office app and or use on office.com, which is really frustrating. You are forced to use their desktop apps on a mac or a windows machine.
 

Frankfurt

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MS Office on iPad sucks. That is the one reason why my iPad cannot replace my work PC.
 

outlawarth

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I use MS office (teams, excel and word) extensively on my 12.9 to run our business and it works perfectly for my needs.
 
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subjonas

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Hello, I'm thinking of renewing my first generation iPad Pro. I want the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. For the use of office, Word, Excel... what opinions do you have? Normal use

Thanks
Note- the first iPad Pro was 12.9”. I’m guessing you’re referring to the first 9.7” iPad Pro which came out the following year.

Mine does office work pretty adequately for me. But I don’t have extreme office needs. That probably doesn’t help you.
 

Jackbequickly

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Excel is just not the same and prefer a laptop or desktop. Excel on an iPad is good in a pinch.
 
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