It has been almost a month since Microsoft made Office for iPad available. The number of downloads of Office for iPad has exceeded all expectations. As we told you earlier, there are three Office components you can have on your iPad and they are Word, PowerPoint & Excel. These three Office apps give you an unbeatable experience as compared to any other document creator or editor apps available for iPad. We have used Office for iPad on iPad with Retina Display and it worked flawlessly without any crashes or bugs.
Among the three components, PowerPoint made us its fan because of its delivering a high-quality experience in creating and editing .ppt files. Well, Office for iPad is free for you for viewing documents, but if you want to create new documents or if you’re looking to edit documents, you’ll need to buy an Office 365 subscription.
Office for iPad Activation
One year of Office365 subscription comes around USD 70. However, if you have an MSDN subscription, you can use it to register for the Office365 developer account. This will give you a personalized email address like [email protected]. You can use this email address to activate Office for iPad. All you need to do is to tap on Activate option in any of the three apps available, then pick Activate by signing in and now enter the email address as we mentioned earlier. In a few seconds, after verification, you’ll have all Office apps activated uniformly on your iPad.
Microsoft Office for iPad Free Review
Let’s review these Office apps one by one.
Word app for iPad
First, the Word app which is the reflection of Word component available in the Desktop suite, lets you create simple Office documents with pre-defined templates. Whether its a personal letter, your job resume or your exam paper, Word tackles them smartly. Word app contains everything that could be possible for an iPad as far as the manipulation of documents is concerned.
The WordArt text effects work in the same sense as they work for Desktop component. You can break page, insert tables & pictures, draw shapes at the ease of few taps and make your documents more stylish. The app has many useful fonts embedded in it so that you create text in your desired typography. In short, the app could be a great substitute, if you’re looking to create a nice document in just 5 minutes!
PowerPoint app for iPad
Moving on to the PowerPoint app, as we already mentioned it’s our best pick among Office apps for iPad. The reason behind this thinking is the cool creativity you can explore with it. With it, creating a slide show presentation never bores you and instead draws a great interest for the same. With the Text Styles section, you can make headings looking more awesome.
The Slide Show is as expected, works too great for the iPad. Using the Slide Show, you’ll find real value for your money that you invested in buying your iPad. The Slide Show effects are pleasant, in a single month I’ve run it many times and it never crashed or so. Obviously, you can apply the same effect to all or slides of your wish. Using Effect Options, you can set the ordinate where the effects should enter or leave.
Excel app for iPad
Next, let us see what the Excel app is offering you. Excel app basically concentrates on the business class people. Whether you’re at a shop or school, or if you’ve to discuss the annual financial reports for your company, the Excel app removes the hitch in creating documents manually with its pre-defined templates. You have to simply pick a template and make modifications to it, to make it relevant for you.
The cells can be colored or tweaked according to the width you need to put your content. Many functions can be operated using basic mathematics analysis; these include the trigonometric functions as well. The graphs can be inserted from the Recommended section under Insert tab.
So, in the nutshell, Office for iPad is a fully loaded treat for your documents if you don’t want to carry your laptop wherever you go. One question might be coming in your mind that how you will move the created documents from iPad to your Windows laptop? Well, Office for iPad gives you the option to save documents to your OneDrive (Microsoft account), so you can use the same account on your Windows operating system to extract your documents.
Office for iPad free download
You can download the Office for iPad app free from the Apple Store. As mentioned earlier, you can use it free for viewing Office documents, but if you want to create new documents or if you’re looking for editing documents, you’ll need to buy an Office 365 subscription.
Microsoft Office for iPad Product Guide
This 28-page guide covers the following topics:
- Introduction to Microsoft Office for iPad
- Basic features and Getting started
- Office documents look better than ever on iPad
- Microsoft Office experience, designed for iPad
- Edit, create and collaborate on Office documents
- Cloud and Office 365 integration with the app
- More features and details about the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps.
The Product guide also includes a section on Frequently Asked Questions.
Go here to download the Office for iPad Product Guide. I am sure that you will find it useful.
You can download the Office for iPad Product Guide from Microsoft.
I hope you’ll enjoy the Office for iPad!
