Best iOS Mobile Office Suite?

[techyguy717]

There is an increasing demand for Office documents on an iPad.

Is there a general consensus as to what Office Program is most compatible with Microsoft Office documents?

Making sure the documents retain their original formatting and exact information is the #1 priority. Of course, it should be fairly easy to use as well.

There are a dozen highly ranked Office Suits for iOS, but what is the best? What have people been recommending?

 

[altrenda]

Most of my full Mac users use Pages and Numbers on their iPad.

Windows users seem to like Documents To Go.

 

[DCGPX]

I use office2plus pro myself

 

[techyguy717]

Kees_B from Cnet forums posted this link.

Quote from: http://www.macworld.com/article/1168325/editing_excel_files_on_an_ipad.html

""If you need to edit Excel spreads documents on an iPad, first consider whether they’ll need to travel back and forth between your iPad and Microsoft Excel. If not, Apple’s Numbers will likely give you the best experience. When you do need to preserve full Office compatibility, Office HD is your best choice, as long as you don’t need to import documents containing charts. If creating (or preserving) charts is essential, I’d give the nod to Polaris Office.""

Documents will be emailed around the office and edited with Microsoft Office. The road warriors decided to go with the iPad. Nothing I can do, except make sure they don't mess up the format of documents when editing and emailing back again.

What are your thoughts on Office HD and Polaris Office when document format and exact data retention are needed?

 

[trevm999]

Apple sales training recommends Office 2 HD for best compatibility, I've never tried it though

 

[chrisaroz]

the Office WebApps were upgraded about 6 months ago to work better on an iPad. have you tried that?

 

[SuffolkComputers]

I use quick office pro HD on my ipad, I've used it for editing word and excel docs so far, does the job for me. It's integration with Dropbox and google docs is pretty good too.

 

[Coldbrook Computer]

Pages and Office2 and Office-Plus on IOS

When I switched to from Backberry to the iPhone last fall, I had to scramble to find a replacement for my favorite tools. On my iPhone I currently use Pages - Office2 / Office Plus. I like the feel of Office2 and sync to Dropbox and Google Drive. It also handles my spreadsheet well enough to record my mileage and equipment s/n numbers,. Its more a limitation of the phone screen size not the SW.

On the IMac, I was using Pages and iCal. Pages is ok, but I don't like iCal. I bought the business version of Mac Office, so that it would include Outlook. Mac Word is OK, but Mac Outlook is a really bad port. I'm still looking for a cheap but effective CRM.

On the iPad I like Notability and Bento.

Try Office2, the upgrade to allow cloud storage is cheap money.

Brendan
Coldbrook Computer & Networking

 

[techyguy717]

I'm surprised their is no stand out app when it comes to Microsoft Office Compatibility for iPad.

It seems like Office 2 HD and Documents To Go are recommended here. The current versions seems to be rated just OK on iTunes.

 

[altrenda]

That's why everyone is so excited for the rumored MS Office for iPad.

And why there is always grumbling about an open standard to replace .docx and .xlsx. But they have never gained widespread acceptance.