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We'll be exploring the differences in more detail over the next days, but for now, Microsoft is off to an impressive start.'That's the wrong choice,' O'Donnell said in a Wednesday interview. Both of those competing solutions have their advantages (for one, Google Docs doesn't require a subscription), but they bring disadvantages as well (such as fewer easily accessible templates). With the last piece of the puzzle, Microsoft appears to have finally met the challenge posed by iWork and Google Docs. But with the iPad version, it starts to feel like the modern Microsoft Office is a set of tools that truly works together. Without this piece of the puzzle, the gap between the desktop and smartphone versions was too big.

Then, with Office Mobile for iPhone you can make last-minute edits and fix typos while on your way to the big meeting. Here's why: Microsoft reasonably assumes that you'll start your work on your desktop, then gives you the tools to make substantial tweaks on your iPad with many of the most used features. What I'm now realizing is with the iPad app, the limited Office Mobile for iPhone makes a lot more sense. While it's still not as powerful as the desktop version (obviously), it sits right where it should be, which is comfortably between Office on a computer and a smartphone. That's a big, and welcome, improvement from Office Mobile for iPhone. Rather than just a place to view documents and make small edits, Office for iPad actually lets you get real work done on your tablet. In order to edit and create documents, you'll need an Office 365 subscription for $9.99 per month for home, or $5 to $15 per month for business.

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Like I said earlier, you can only view documents on your OneDrive with the free versions of the iPad apps. Once they receive it, they can login to your document and you can work simultaneously and see what your colleague is doing in real time. When you touch the button, you have the option to send a link via email, email the document as an attachment, or copy the link to the document on OneDrive so you can send it to a colleague any way you like.

The Office apps for iPad continue to make it easy to connect with others and share documents with a button in the shape of a person in the upper right which lets you add people to collaborate. One of the big selling points for the modern Microsoft Office for desktops and mobile devices is the ability to work together on whatever device you're using. There are common functions for financial spreadsheets, logical functions, text-focused functions, Lookup and Reference functions, and several more. It won't be on par with the desktop version for the sheer number of formulas, but you can choose from long lists of common formulas by category. When it comes to formulas, Excel for iPad has you covered. Even if you don't like what Excel recommends, there are countless options in the Charts section and they're organized by type, with graph categories that include lines, columns, pie charts, and numerous other types. When you want a visual representation of your data, Excel for iPad lets you select the data and will give you several recommended chart and graph types which will best represent it.

Already, the features listed so far are much more than what you get with Office Mobile for iPhone. Layout lets you set margins, adjust page size, format your document with columns, add headers and footers, and more. The Insert tab lets you add images, tables, shapes, footnotes, and provide links to online sources in your document. Just like on the desktop, your Home view is where you can choose fonts, change text styles, adjust text alignment, and other common actions as you create your document. Across the top of the iPad screen is a sort of abbreviated Ribbon (known to desktop Office users), with tabs for Home, Insert, Layout, Review, and View. Once in a document, you can immediately see how much more robust the iPad version is over Office Mobile for iPhone. It's not a big problem, but it would be nice if Microsoft let iPad users get access to all the available templates. One thing you don't get with the iPad is access to online templates created by other users. You also can start from scratch with a blank document, but it's nice to have pre-made options for the more common word-processing tasks. When creating a new document, you get 15 common templates to help you get started, with everything from brochures and business correspondence, to invoices and personal letters.

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