Is there a free office app that anyone has gotten to work on the g tablet yet that will allow you to open and edit MS office docs?
Documents to Go. I used 2.0 from the apk but 3.0 installed fine after I got market working.
That's not free to edit docs, though.
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A decent set of applications for editing documents is what we really need. It is probably the most important thing to me. Until there is a application that rivals iwork on the ipad it will always have a one up with people that need the productivity applications.
Google docs is working OK, and it is free, but still not great.
doesn't quickoffice work on the gtab? I believe it was in the tntlite/gapps apk. might want to give that one a try. I was hoping it did, but have not downloaded or installed it yet.
IIRC it's still only a viewer. You can buy QuickOffice or a comparable app for $10-$15 on the Market. But they are designed for phones and do not take advantage of screen real estate (e.g. no toolbars, etc.).
Not sure if it works on the G Tablet since I did not get mine yet to mess around with it yet but I know Google Docs is just a free website and you can edit all types of office program documents. May just have to maybe use the browser and go to docs.google.com
Take a look at 'goodintentions' site. He has a link to Quick Office HD which is MS Office compatible.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/download.htm
Quickoffice HD is very good if you are running one of the Honeycomb varients. Otherwise the standard Quickoffice Pro is pretty good as well. No, they are not free, but you get what you pay for...
BTW - you have to purchase "Pages, "Numbers," and "Keynote" seperately on the iPad to the tune of $10 each. With that in mind Quickoffice is a bargain.
Honestly, I've found that the free Olive Office Premium works better for some uses than even some of the non-free office apps. I've used it on my G Tab with Thumb Keyboard, and it's pretty decent. Like I said, sometimes I use it even over the office suites I purchased, namely Quick Office and Documents to Go.
It's simply stupid that there is no port of Open Office to Android. There's no reason for it as far as I can tell.
Thanks for the tip, scyld. I still prefer QuickOffice, but this looks as good as it gets for free.
By the way- it seems to work fine using the Adam keyboard found elswhere on this board.
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Quickoffice HD is very good if you are running one of the Honeycomb varients. Otherwise the standard Quickoffice Pro is pretty good as well. No, they are not free, but you get what you pay for...
BTW - you have to purchase "Pages, "Numbers," and "Keynote" seperately on the iPad to the tune of $10 each. With that in mind Quickoffice is a bargain.
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Actually, the quickoffice HD available on my site works wonderfully on the gtab froyo and ginger roms. I just used it to type out a very long letter to religious leaders.
Is it legal to distribute that (Quickoffice HD)? I just shelled out $20 for my copy (worth every penny).
The one I'm hosting is pulled from the NI adam tablet. It's a tablet oriented qoffice.
I'm trying out that QuickOffice HD from the site on the Flashback HC ROM and it force quits whenever I try to either open a file or browse for one.
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I'm trying out that QuickOffice HD from the site on the Flashback HC ROM and it force quits whenever I try to either open a file or browse for one.
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There are two varients of QuickOffice HD. The version NI Adam version is ok for all ROMs (I think), but the purchase version is dubbed HD Pro and is only usable on HoneyComb and is slightly different than the standard HD version. I'll try and post screenshots later.
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I haven't tried this yet, but I was curious if anyone has tried loading Adobe Reader onto the Xoom? I'm guessing we have to side load it since Market won't install it, but I'm curious if it even works.
I have it installed and haven't had any problems with it.
Hoping Adobe released a Reader w/ bookmark support. We can't use these for our Board of Directors without that functionality.
It works but seems to hang on me at times with multi-page PDF's (text and photos).
So obviously you guys had to do this via a sideload of the apk, since Market won't allow an install of the app to the Xoom?
Mine Market-installed when I activated my Xoom (I had it installed on my Droid). Had no issues with it, use it for textbooks.
It works. I bootlegged it from my mytouch 4g running CM7 and sideloaded it onto my Xoom.
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Mine Market-installed when I activated my Xoom (I had it installed on my Droid). Had no issues with it, use it for textbooks.
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Same here.
I market installed on launch day, rooted a few days later and it was unavailable. Quickoffice seems to run better for now anyway.
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I side loaded it too, from my gTablet.
Being that it's a free app, I've uploaded it here. I hope that's not breaking any rules.
Meh. I just installed Adobe and I have to say I like EzPDF reader a lot better. It costs a Buck, but it's smoother, faster and has better navigation, IMHO.
Might revisit Adobe reader if they optimize it for tablets.
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Meh. I just installed Adobe and I have to say I like EzPDF reader a lot better. It costs a Buck, but it's smoother, faster and has better navigation, IMHO.
Might revisit Adobe reader if they optimize it for tablets.
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I agree. I was having a hard time reading PDF magazine text in other readers. I switched to EzPDF and it renders text perfectly.
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I side loaded it too, from my gTablet.
Being that it's a free app, I've uploaded it here. I hope that's not breaking any rules.
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How do you install this file onto the Xoom. I did download, now what?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Just open it through file manager, it should install.
Has anyone tried quickoffice?
I'm using the PDF reader that came bundled with Documents2Go, no problems.
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I use RepliGo and I really like it.
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I started using Quickoffice and it's abit faster over ezpdf but ezpdf's layout is nicer.
I tried Adobe Reader, Aldiko ebook reader and the built-in Quick Office and by far Quick Office does the best job of rendering small text to read scanned magazines of these three. My biggest gripe with Quick Office is I wish there was a simple button to advance a page instead of swiping. If the page would snap that would be better.
I have not tried any of the pay options.
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I tried Adobe Reader, Aldiko ebook reader and the built-in Quick Office and by far Quick Office does the best job of rendering small text to read scanned magazines of these three. My biggest gripe with Quick Office is I wish there was a simple button to advance a page instead of swiping. If the page would snap that would be better.
I have not tried any of the pay options.
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Well I'll be damned. I didn't even know it came with quickoffice preinstalled. I just found on the motorola support site that you don't see an app icon for it, but the program launches when you open one of it's supported files.
I was confused as to why i could search the market from the web or my phone and see the adobe reader, but not from my tablet. I use titanium backup pro so I just synced my backups to my dropbox, pulled it up on the Xoom, and got the apk that way. It's working great on the xoom too.
im having a hard time finding a good processing app @[email protected]
What about Google Docs? Does it work in Android browser or Dolphin? It's quite good.
There's going to be QuickOffice Pro HD for Honeycomb coming out soon.
And if you subscribe with your email, there's going to be 30% discount when you purchase it.
http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_connect_suite_android_hd/
MS Office Live
Has anyone tried MS office for web? It runs very good in chorme on desktop, waiting for my wifi xoom to see how it works in honeycomb browser
Search office live in google to find it i cant post outside links yet
I have paid for Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I like Picsel because it is the only app so far that displays graphics correctly but track changes are not available until the next big release (they have a good customer support). D2G has the track changes but lacks a lot of correct rendering and PPT support is atrocious. I'm sure in the next 2-3 months we'll have a decent selection to choose from!
Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
They both run, but are very clunky.
I tried ThinkOffice, no go - FC off the bat.
OfficeSuite Pro trial seems to loose the document as you type, then goes into a "Recover your doc screen" - I couldn't even get a paragraph in with this.
I'm open to suggestions here, I really need a solid Doc/XLS app that won't have issues that hinder it - I don't need full fledge office or anything, but I do need something that will let me View/Edit and finding one that does bullet points would be freakin sweet.
I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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niiza said:
I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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Then Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office should work for you! But only the paid version allows to edit
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Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
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What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?
I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.
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I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.
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I cannot say that I am impressed with any of the currently available apps. Check out my comparison of Quick Office, Picsel SmartOffice and Documents to Go!
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What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?
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Try them, you can tell that the browsers struggles. More the office live than Google docs, but even with google docs there are things that you just have to have a mouse for. Sadly there is not yet an HTML standard for touch input as a replacement for mouse events. Especially with things like Hover, Drag, and Drop.
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I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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I have been using quickoffice HD. So far its pretty good. I also have docs to go, whichnis good but the file browsing is better in quickoffice.
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Accophox said:
I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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Sure, I can also use my phone for typing but what I need a tablet to do is to recognize basic fonts, comments, and paragraph formatting. I don't think we're expecting too much. If I want a text editor that's different but if you claim to have a "professional" office suite and can't even display the symbol font then something's not right. But I'm glad it works for you!
i also ordered quick office HD and I mainly use powerpoint but quick office keeps auto advancing the slides. I don't want to have to keep pressing the pause button every time I manually advance the slides. Does anyone know how to turn off the auto advancing so that I can just manually advance the slides when I want to?
I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.
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I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.
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My auto correct works in quick office hd.
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Isn't autocorrect also a feature of the keyboard that you use? I have to admit that none of the keyboards I tried so far has as good an autocorrect as my iPhone :-(
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I saw that Adobe released a version of Photoshop for the Xoom. Anyone heard about them releasing it for Xoom?
.........huh?
While there isn't a full fledged Photoshop (currently?) out for Android, you can download Adobe Photoshop Express for free, just search it in the market.
Also, I see from some of your other posts that you seem to be trying to use the Xoom for some office purposes. I hate to be this guy, but don't get your expectations too high.
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While there isn't a full fledged Photoshop (currently?) out for Android, you can download Adobe Photoshop Express for free, just search it in the market.
Also, I see from some of your other posts that you seem to be trying to use the Xoom for some office purposes. I hate to be this guy, but don't get your expectations too high.
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I think it works quite well for office use. I use mine daily for this very reason. Evernote, Touchdown, QuickOffice HD, Office Talk (MS Communicator) and PrinterShare (Printing from the Xoom) all great apps. QuickOffice HD doesn't do everything I need it to at the moment but I am sure before long it will be updated with more functionality.
According to Engadget:
As we said, no one's even confirming that this has any hope of breaching reality, but we're going ahead and making the outlandish assumption that Adobe's not just wasting our (and its own) time by showcasing this in public.
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Adobe showed it off at their latest event.
Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad
IMHO, the Adobe Express available in the Market, is a piece of crap. Real Photoshop needs to make its way to reality ASAP.
ateld said:
While there isn't a full fledged Photoshop (currently?) out for Android, you can download Adobe Photoshop Express for free, just search it in the market.
Also, I see from some of your other posts that you seem to be trying to use the Xoom for some office purposes. I hate to be this guy, but don't get your expectations too high.
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Yeah, I really only want light use. For anything substantial I would be better off remoting into Windows.
Sodikop said:
According to Engadget:
Adobe showed it off at their latest event.
Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad
IMHO, the Adobe Express available in the Market, is a piece of crap. Real Photoshop needs to make its way to reality ASAP.
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Yes, I was referring to the Adobe recent demo. I had read an article that mistakenly indicated it had already been released. I would think it would make more sense to release a Lightroom version to support the update where we get access to camera profiles. I would be thrilled to learn that they include .Raw file support but I am not holding my breath.
I am actually hoping that my Xoom will become a Liveview via direct tether (photography) more than anything. the potential to use ti for timelapse and other tethered field shooting is enormous.
B Dizzle said:
I think it works quite well for office use. I use mine daily for this very reason. Evernote, Touchdown, QuickOffice HD, Office Talk (MS Communicator) and PrinterShare (Printing from the Xoom) all great apps. QuickOffice HD doesn't do everything I need it to at the moment but I am sure before long it will be updated with more functionality.
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I agree, I use QuickOffice HD, Docs To Go and Touchdown daily but I wasn't even aware of PrinterShare, so thanks! :::EDITED:::A bit off topic, but has anyone here tried the RDP app from Xtralogic on their Xoom yet?
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I agree, I use QuickOffice HD, Docs To Go and Touchdown daily but I wasn't even aware of PrinterShare, so thanks! :::EDITED:::A bit off topic, but has anyone here tried the RDP app from Xtralogic on their Xoom yet?
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Yes, I've used Xtralogic's newest version of RDP that's optimized for tablet use and it's actually pretty good. Much better than any VNC alternative.
Can anyone recommend me a office app that works smoothly?
I have quickoffice hd in my xoom but it lags like hell
omnia1994 said:
Can anyone recommend me a office app that works smoothly?
I have quickoffice hd in my xoom but it lags like hell
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I have bought a lot of 'em during those Android Market sales in December or so, and I think the best office app is OfficeSuite which I bought -back then- for .49 €
For PDF files ezpdf is the best.
Beware though, Google has acquired QuickOffice recently so I might become a bit better and I guess there might also come tighter integration with Drive.
adelancker said:
I have bought a lot of 'em during those Android Market sales in December or so, and I think the best office app is OfficeSuite which I bought -back then- for .49 €
For PDF files ezpdf is the best.
Beware though, Google has acquired QuickOffice recently so I might become a bit better and I guess there might also come tighter integration with Drive.
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+1 for ezpdf and Officesuit. Both are my choices.
Kingsoft Office and CloudOn
Check out Kingsoft Office and CloudOn, both are free and definitely worth a try. I bought Office Pro but I think those may be better
Anyone have any solution to use excel on nexus 10 ?
Wrong section, this is for accessories.
You can use excel on your tablet if you have an Office 365 Subscription, or if you dont have that you can use QuickOffice to make Google Doc spreadsheets.
SirRudolph said:
Wrong section, this is for accessories.
You can use excel on your tablet if you have an Office 365 Subscription, or if you dont have that you can use QuickOffice to make Google Doc spreadsheets.
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I'm not sure that MS Office is supported on Android tablets.
Depending on what the OP needs, finding the right app could be trial and error. Quickoffice is good, I've been using it for quite a while back when it cost $20. I also use Kingsoft Office. Once you start getting into sheets with formulas, that's where compatibility starts to be an issue. Some sheets would open in both, one or none of the apps.
I've used Kingston office with no problems but I've heard it gets a little iffy as you go more in depth with the functions as mentioned above. I say give it a try because its free!
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>> Office Mobile for Office 365
Not the best in my opinion, but certainly there.