Any decent Office app for a tablet?

londonman81

I'm deciding on which tablet to buy, but one thing I'd like to use it for is to quickly and easily edit spreadsheet whilst 'on the go'.


I have searched Play Store for android office apps and the most popular one seems to be Kingsoft Office. However, when I tried it out, it was far from user friendly and left much to be desired. Each step of editing a spreadsheet was fraught with errors (not selecting cells correctly etc etc) and therefore took too long.

I haven't seen the equivalent offerings on Apple Store - but does anyone have any experience of it?

In general, can anyone recommend an app which is reasonably good at replicating the Office experience of a PC?

Thank you!

bod1467

I've put Kingsoft on the wife's Nexus 7 but haven't really played with it yet. I'd also be interested in specific recommendations.

chib

On an iPad, both "Numbers" and "Pages" work well with Microsoft Office document formats.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4642

I assume however that Microsoft Office will work perfectly on the Microsoft Surface.

bengalknights

Polaris office is quite good

kwikbreaks

londonman81 wrote: »

In general, can anyone recommend an app which is reasonably good at replicating the Office experience of a PC?

IMO that's a big ask. Are you considering using an external keyboard and trackpad with the tablet? If so why bother with a tablet and if not most people's sausage fingers lack the precision of a mouse/keyboard combo and the smaller screen certainly won't help.

If it's just spreadsheets you might consider using google docs on the tablet browser although they really are very poor relations to proper PC based office applications.

paddyrg

I use MobiSystems OfficeSuite6 on my Nexus7/Note2

It integrates with cloud storage (skydrive, google drive, etc), albeit a bit crude at times.

The spreadsheet app does open xls/xslx spreadsheets and you can edit them just fine. All formatting gets lost when you do, but you pay for the convenience. I used it to prepare a simple sheet of insurance requirements whilst on a train after an urgent last-minute call. The result was plain-looking, but computationally correct, and all done and distributed whilst sitting on a busy train.

I paid 25p in the sale, which was my main reason for that particular choice, but I don't regret it at the price.

mttylad

Office is a suite of apps, it will all depend upon what the OP wants out of it so more information is needed.