Best apps for working with PDF, Excel and Word files?

[SweetPoison]

I have pages, and I will say it is awesome. All You do after making the document is send it as an email or upload it to a website and you can orient it from there. It's basically Microsoft word, but a fraction of the cost.

I do this too! I love Pages!

 

[chiffchaff]

like many prevous posters, I use GoodReader for reading and annotating PDFs. I love the file management system it offers. I use Pages and Numbers for text and spreadsheet editing respectively. I'm very happy with the capabilities and import/export options of all three apps.

As for getting files on and off your iPad, you can do that with iTunes for Pages and Numbers, but from what I can tell most of us don't use that option (if you want to explore it anyway look for the file sharing boxes at the bottom of the apps tab when your iPad is connected to iTunes). Any of the cloud computing services available will work well for a variety of file types and seem to be the most common solution. I happen to use DropBox and love it. Also for a very simple, no purchase required option you can email docs to yourself. If you move a lot of files back and forth that will get tedious, though.

 

[The-Shadow]

I swear by Docs to Go. I do a lot of invoices and inventory reports using Excel spreadsheets and Docs to Go has been a champ.

I have used desktop versions of the iWork suite but can't speak to their iPad counterparts.

 

[Krakrjaks]

I noticed that doc to go doesn't have a very good rating In iTunes. Do you guys depend on these ratings very much?

R.J. Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[mdanjum30]

Take a look at the iWork apps, they are 9.99 each. I use ms offfice at work, I have not missed or lost functionality except maybe a couple of fonts. For PDF I went with ipdf. Welcome to the forum, u will love it. Everyone is great and very helpful.

hi ihad just listed my intention to purchase ipad and wanted to know the functionality of excel in ipad, please suggest whether i would be able to use options like filters in excel which i use frequently in ms office

 

[mdanjum30]

hi do you use spreadsheets in ipad and r u happy with the functionality of ipad apps for spreadsheet for eg would you be able to use filter options of MS office as in our PC

 

[Demandarin]

Pages, Office2 HD, and Docs to Go is the way to go for viewing/editing of docs, spreadsheets, or whatever.

 

[madhatter61]

GoodReader ... great app

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With the PDF Reflow feature, reading your documents is a pleasure because it extracts pure text from PDF files and automatically wraps words. This amazing feature fits all of the text to your screen perfectly. That means you never have to scroll left and right to read the text.

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What a great writeup and explanation of GoodReader. Thanks.
This is a "Sticky" status writeup for sure, IMO.

 

[Desmac]

Problem opening Word doc

I've tried to open a word doc using Goodreader, but it reports 'the file format is invalid'. Is there a setting or something I can tweak to allow it to open? I'm sure Goodreader should open doc files.

 

[giaco]

like many others before, i use good reader for viewing most of my docs or pdfs and other documents. it's easy to use and offers great bang for the buck.

pages is ok, but i'm not overly impressed by it. tables and other stuff regulary get f.. up if you try to export pages stuff to a windows pc.

 

[musicipad]

Gooreader is the best app for office documents. Its worth it!

 

[zenonp]

Take a look at the iWork apps, they are 9.99 each. I use ms offfice at work, I have not missed or lost functionality except maybe a couple of fonts. For PDF I went with ipdf. Welcome to the forum, u will love it. Everyone is great and very helpful.

I just posted essentially the same question. I'd like to work on my Word docs using Pages, but iTunes will not sync DOC files -- says nothing on iPad can read them so does not sync them!

 

[Batpad]

I just posted essentially the same question. I'd like to work on my Word docs using Pages, but iTunes will not sync DOC files -- says nothing on iPad can read them so does not sync them!

Get yourself a dropbox account. Then sign up a dropdav account. Link the dropdav account to dropbox you will then be able to add documents without having to use itunes

Sent from my iPad using iPF - The only stupid question is the one you don't ask

 

[mdanjum30]

Get yourself a dropbox account. Then sign up a dropdav account. Link the dropdav account to dropbox you will then be able to add documents without having to use itunes

Sent from my iPad using iPF - The only stupid question is the one you don't ask

Thanks that was really a simple solution to save my docs , spreadsheet to my system from iPad, great , thanks again that was helpful

 

[markbnh1]

What is a dropdav aaccount? I already have dropbox set up and working.

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