Originally Posted by ValerianoWeiler

Hello to all,

First off I would like to state that I am very inexperienced with apple products in general, and am in no way computer savvy. This said, I decided to undertake the ultimate act of bravery and have received from a family member an Ipad2 as a christmas gift. Jokes aside, it really is a marvel. My intention is to basically throw out my old PC. There are two things however that I do need to get ironed out:

a) Does apple or anyone else for that matter offer a good word processor. I work with documents, in 3 different languages and I need to be able to access documents that are in dropbox or in the iCloud or any other similar application, and edit them. It would also be useful if I could link my computer and iPad and have them sync (I'm refering mostly to the documents on dropbox). The problem with the dropbox app that I have is that I can access the docuemnts, but I cannot modify them or edit them. An added issue is that I have a wireless bluetooth Spanish keyboard (my usual source language), but I would like to be able to change the language setting on the text I'm working on without it affecting the keyboard layout.

b) As a consecuence of the above, I do need to be able to print documents from my wireless WiFi printer. I am not even sure if this is possible, I have heard it is, but have still not been able to work out the kinks I suppose.

This comment I suppose is a cry for some advice if not for outright help. Any recommendation and advice is already much apreciated, the good word processor is I believe my largest worry right now. Thank you, and if there's ever anything I can help with (he says laughing to himself and at his own incompetence), I'll do as much as possible to return the favour. Yes, favour with a u... don't ask.

A very good printer program to use with wireless is Printer Pro $6.95 from the apple store.

Originally Posted by DarkRavenMoon

Yup there is no getting around the fact we NEED Microsoft Office for the iPad...

It would be nice but some of the available Office apps out there are pretty darned good. Ive had good luck with QuickOffice Pro HD. I don't do any complicated calculations or other crazy stuff though. For most people, I'd expect any of the major office apps already out there to be perfectly good. Depends on the needs you have. Docs To Go, QuickOffice, Office HD, iWorkSuite, they are all solid.