The full Microsoft Office suite of apps – Word, Excel, and Powerpoint – are now available for download for the iPad in the App Store. The apps are a free download, but it will cost you a subscription to Microsoft’s Office 365, ($99 a year but you can get it cheaper at Amazon), in order to use the app’s editing functions.
Microsoft list the following highlights of Word for iPad:
Word documents look beautiful
•Images, tables, charts, SmartArt, footnotes, equations are all there, nicely formatted.
•Word documents look great, just as they do on your PC or Mac.
•View email attachments and access all your Word documents from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint.
•Pick up from where you left off because Word for iPad knows what you were working on last, no matter what device you were using.Create and edit with confidence
•When you edit a document, your content and formatting are maintained across all your devices – PC, Mac, tablet and phone.
•Express your ideas exactly the way you want, with rich formatting including fonts, pictures, tables, charts, textboxes, shapes, footnotes, page layout and more.
•Track changes, add comments and work simultaneously with others on the same document.
•Word automatically saves your document, so you can rest assured that you don’t lose all your work while you’re on the go.
•Simply share your work with others by emailing a hyperlink or the entire document.A familiar Microsoft Office experience
•It’s easy to pick up the app and get started, because it’s like the Word experience you already know.
•The familiar navigation and menu options are built for a touch experience. No keyboard required.
For Excel, Microsoft lists the following features/highlights:
Excel spreadsheets look stunning
•Formulas, tables, charts, comments, hyperlinks, sparklines, conditional formatting are all there, so you see the whole picture.
•Excel spreadsheets look great, just as they do on your PC or Mac.
•View email attachments and access all your Excel spreadsheets from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint.
•Pick up from where you left off because Excel for iPad knows what you were working on last, no matter what device you were using.Create and edit with confidence
•When you edit a spreadsheet, your content and formatting are maintained across all your devices – PC, Mac, tablet and phone.
•Turn numbers into insights, with support for formulas, charts, tables, sorting, filtering, and more.
•A special formula keyboard lets you add numbers and formulas rapidly – much easier than with the standard touch keyboard.
•Excel automatically saves your spreadsheet, so you can rest assured that you don’t lose all your work while you’re on the go.
•Simply share your work with others by emailing a hyperlink or the entire spreadsheet.A familiar Microsoft Office experience
•It’s easy to pick up the app and get started, because it’s like the Excel experience you already know.
•The familiar navigation and menu options are built for a touch experience. No keyboard required.
And finally, the info about Microsoft Powerpoint for iPad:
Excel spreadsheets look stunning
•Formulas, tables, charts, comments, hyperlinks, sparklines, conditional formatting are all there, so you see the whole picture.
•Excel spreadsheets look great, just as they do on your PC or Mac.
•View email attachments and access all your Excel spreadsheets from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint.
•Pick up from where you left off because Excel for iPad knows what you were working on last, no matter what device you were using.Create and edit with confidence
•When you edit a spreadsheet, your content and formatting are maintained across all your devices – PC, Mac, tablet and phone.
•Turn numbers into insights, with support for formulas, charts, tables, sorting, filtering, and more.
•A special formula keyboard lets you add numbers and formulas rapidly – much easier than with the standard touch keyboard.
•Excel automatically saves your spreadsheet, so you can rest assured that you don’t lose all your work while you’re on the go.
•Simply share your work with others by emailing a hyperlink or the entire spreadsheet.A familiar Microsoft Office experience
•It’s easy to pick up the app and get started, because it’s like the Excel experience you already know.
•The familiar navigation and menu options are built for a touch experience. No keyboard required.
Am I the only one picking up a theme here? And I truly love the fact that after months of Surface commercials that pounded on the fact the iPad “has no keyboard,” Microsoft proudly mentions for all three apps: “No keyboard required.”
I’m downloading the apps as I type, and will be taking a run at using them, (for some reason, I am an Office 365 subscriber), and will report back later.
Microsoft Word for iPad, Excel for iPad, and Powerpoint for iPad are all available free, (well, kinda – See the first paragraph above), in the App Store.
