Microsoft’s all-in-one Office app can turn your iPad into a desktop-class work machineĪccording to Michael Atalla, director of product management for Office, Office for iPad represents neither a “blown-up” Office Mobile for iPhone nor a stripped-down Office for Windows, but rather a custom version of Office designed expressly for the iPad.What makes Office for iPad so important, naturally, is that one can actually do something with the document, rather than hunt and peck at it, as one must in Office Mobile on a smartphone. Each Office 365 subscription includes at least one tablet subscription, which covers Office for iPad. In a nice twist, you can connect both your personal OneDrive and OneDrive for Business accounts and connect to SharePoint as well. However, to create or edit documents, you must subscribe to Office 365: either Office 365 Home Premium ($9.99 per month), the upcoming Office 365 Personal ($6.99 per month), or one of several business options. And each is free to use to view documents that have been created elsewhere.īut Office 365 also includes a subscription to OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution, a central repository from which one can withdraw and store documents. (OneNote for the iPad has been available since 2011, and Microsoft’s Lync, Skype, and Yammer are also available.) Users can download each, free of charge, from Apple’s iTunes on an iPad running iOS 7.0 or above. Microsoft’s Office for iPad is a collection of three apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

With Office for iPad, Microsoft has stolen that crown.Ĭlean, bold, and easy to use: Microsoft Office for the iPad. Apple claims that products like its Pages are the most beautiful office software for iPad and other Apple devices. The answer: Outdo iWork in both form and function. How could Microsoft bring its pricey Office suite into a world of free (and almost free) apps? When Apple announced that its iWork suite would be bundled, free of charge, with new iOS and Mac devices, it seemingly slammed the door on Microsoft’s Office ambitions for the iPad. Update: All three Office for iPad apps received updates to version 1.1 on July 31, including the ability to export documents in PDF format, resize images, and other features unique to each app.

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