What apps to use / set up.

[Chade7320]

I'm new to the iPad world, as well as the apple world. I'm looking for suggestions on how I should set the up. Heres what I'm looking to get out of it.

Right now I carry around a large 3 ring binder with pricing for my products, customer orders (pages of invoices), orders waiting to be picked up, and orders I am awaiting payment on. I would like to be able to make folders for each of these categories on my home screen so I can quit toteing around this binder.

My miain invoice I go off of and edit for each customer is a word file. I wouldn't be above using something else to crest them as long as I can eventually print it and it can be emailed to the customer and opened on a normal pc.


Thanks in advanced for your help in making me paperless and pc-less

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

One of our members carried out a survey of Office apps for his company; you can see his conclusions in this thread...

http://www.ipadforums.net/new-member-introductions-site-assistance/22431-hi-all.html

The Apple iWorks Office suite for the iPad has a set of useful Help pages that show their capabilities here...

Pages is Word compatible and can read .doc and .docx files and save in .doc and .pdf

Keynote is PowerPoint compatible and can read .ppt and .pptx files and save in .ppt and .pdf

Numbers is Excel compatible and can read .xls and .xlsx files and save in .xls and .pdf

http://help.apple.com/iwork/1.3/mobile/interface/index.html#tan724868a9

Tim