Getting Started with Microsoft Office for iPad - Computer Total

Microsoft Office 365 is out for iPad. Word, PowerPoint and Excel as separate applications to download. Do you want to edit, then you have to pay. The question is whether Office on your iPad works just as well as Office on the computer.

Office 365 applications are free to download, but the use of all options, only at the end of a subscription. For 9.99 per month or 99 per year you have access to every feature on Word, PowerPoint and Excel. If you do not want to pay then you can only use the apps to read, edit files is not an option. The layout of the apps are very recognizable and they use the same toolbars and colors as their PC brothers.

Word

Microsoft Word seems a little brother of the Windows to be version. The options are more limited selection bar at the top. Instead of seven, you have five tabs, which under the name Display include word count, spelling and ruler are included. These are functions that can be directly read or adjust. In the Windows version Unfortunately, the Word app has only 15 templates and it is not possible to place.

Posting pictures is possible in Word.

Your Word for iPad could use the format most commonly used functions. You can choose different fonts, text italic and bold make and give your text a different color. Images and tables can be easily inserted and check your text for errors works pretty simple. If you are writing text, you can do that with the standard keyboard of the iPad. Become enjoys working with OneDrive. New files are automatically stored in the cloud. And existing documents can be opened directly.

PowerPoint

The PowerPoint app Microsoft has paid much attention. You have access to twenty different templates and you pretty much the same as the Windows version. So you can easily place large tables, titles and add text. You can also choose different slide transitions to turn your presentation. Fully control

You can choose from twenty templates.

You’re quite limited when it comes to posting pictures. Because you can only images that are used on you. IPad It is impossible at this time to process. OneDrive or photographs of the internet in your presentation If you add it using the Windows version then they are visible when you open the PowerPoint presentation on your iPad. In addition, you also do not have to close your presentation on your tablet to make on your PC. Changes These are just made, so even if someone else have a quick little need to adjust when you’re in a presentation for you.

Excel

Excel is the third and final application of Microsoft Office for iPad. You can quickly create tables and arrange the layout, without causing problems. Unlike the two other Office programs, you can still place charts in Excel. You also have the ability to create multiple tabs.

Without any problems you give tables filling.

The finest in Excel for the iPad is that you can use. alternative keyboard It shows features as AutoSum as well as numbers and money signs. You have the most common symbols that keyboard stand.

There are some downsides to the Excel app. It’s hard to have a good overview of large files because you can zoom out., But to a certain extent To select multiple files, then Exel does not work well. You must slide your finger and wait until the image goes slow. Near the edge of your screen Sliding is not possible at the same time.

Weaknesses

Microsoft Office for iPad works fine, provided you are satisfied with a few significant shortcomings. Office for iPad can only sync with OneDrive. With Dropbox, Google Drive or other cloud services nothingness. Could Also you can not print, even if you have an Office 365 license. For that you have to sit behind your Windows PC or Mac. And many standard file formats (including PDF) are not supported. In short, you can not use Office for iPad without a PC.

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