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How Do the Office Apps Stack Up for iPad?FPosted in Business on 09 Jun 2010 |
 Written by Sungtae Park |
  (4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)  Loading ... |
Before going into this, I just want to first list a couple of factors that were considered.
Functions(quality/quantity)
Price
All apps below discussed are “comprehensive” office apps, able to create, edit, format, and share(with e-mail or google doc etc) Microsoft Word docs and Excel spreadsheets.
-Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite-
Some highlights:
*Editing and formatting is very easy with this app because of the Multi-Edit Toolbox that has a lot of different editing/formatting functions in one.
*Navigating is also simple and easy. Just scroll up, down, left, right.
*Convenient drag-drop option.
The best part of this app is that it is extremely easy to use. The app runs smoothly without any bug so far. The price, however, is $9.99, the most expensive of the office apps discussed in this blog.
Functions 5/5
Price 3/5
Overall 4/5
-Documents to Go-
Some highlights:
*Easy editing and formatting as much as Quickoffice.
*Navigating is also just as easy.
The good thing is that the basic version of the app is relatively inexpensive – $7.99. It was also preloaded onto many devices including Blackberry, Palm etc, so many users who switch to iPhone from other platforms are familiar with the functionality and some of UI features. And if you are power/enterprise user you just need to spend $4.99 more to upgrade and then you can edit PowerPoint files (does not exist in QuickOffice) and access files from online storages(ex. Google Doc). The bad part about this app is that the e-mail function is weak. Edit & send function exists for Microsoft Exchange users, but not for other e-mails. The function is also not WITHIN the program.
Function 4/5
Price 2/5(considering the devices that did not come with preloaded versions. $7.99 + $4.99)
Overall 3/5
-Documents 2-
Some Highlights
*Easy editing and formatting as much as Quickoffice.
Using this app is somewhat uncomfortable. It lacks many customization options and navigation capabilities for the users to have an easy time using it. Price, however, is very cheap and quite alluring. $1.99
Function 2/5
Price 4/5
Overall 3/5
-Office2-
This app lacks photo & wifi functions. And it is not compatible with Microsoft Office 2007, which many people use today! You also cannot open e-mail attachments within the app. On other occasions, this app is known to crash once in a while. This one comes at a standard price of $7.99.
Function 1/5
Price 3/5
Overall 2/5
