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  1. 06-29-2010 06:02 PM #11
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    Holy crap! We sort of have Office Mobile for iPad. If you have a hotmail/windows live account, go to the Office section when you log in. They have something like office lite that works in the iPad browser. I just created an excel sheet and a word document in my Sky Drive (25GB free). I opened them and edited them. Its a little slow and you have to be online obviously, but it works and it should be able to read "real" Office docs. I had read that this was coming, but didnt realize they already had it up and running.

    Now, if they would just make an App that syncs all this locally, it would be perfct!
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  3. 06-30-2010 08:49 AM #12
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    Can anyone see this? Its an test excel doc I made and put in my public folder.
    Book1.xlsx - Microsoft Excel Web App

    It may require you to have a Windows Live account. If you have an account, you can create docs on the website with office "lite". You can share docs for editing to other windows live users.
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  4. 06-30-2010 01:56 PM #13
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    I don't have Windows Live, but yeah, I can see it fine. It won't open in Excel though, some sort of permissions error message.
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    The real question is: Will Apple be selling it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by epb View Post
    I don't have Windows Live, but yeah, I can see it fine. It won't open in Excel though, some sort of permissions error message.
    If you have a windows live account, you can also click 'edit in browser'. I am shocked that the web version of these products works in Safari on the iPad.I figured they would use Silverlight or some proprietary technology.
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    You coule also use Logmein or RDC to take control Of your pc/Mac through an Internet/3G connection. I use them often to acess legacy apps (accounting etc) and it works great. You need to be connected of course.
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    who needs office? There are plenty of apps that already do what you want, why buy another?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mjhudston View Post
    who needs office? There are plenty of apps that already do what you want, why buy another?
    Because they all suck. That's sort of a factor for me, I don't know about most people.
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    When you've been spending years perfecting your use of certain software like Word for example, it's counterproductive to use something not as powerful and tested.

    I'd like to see it on iPad. And Adobe Photoshop for that matter.
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