Office is coming to the iPad through Microsoft’s Docs.com. That doesn’t effect me very much, since I’m completely weened off the Office suite — but that’s pretty big news for lots of people, trying to figure out what they’d do with a tablet.
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May I ask what you are using instead of Office? I’m about up to here with Word.
If you haven’t already, give OpenOffice a try. Especially since it’s free.
Will do! Thanks.
Count me among the OpenOffice acolytes. You can’t beat it for flexibility. And once you learn the “equation language,” doing equation-intensive reports is actually quite easy.
For number crunching I use Apple’s Numbers. For word processing I alternate between Bean (very nice and very free and saves to MS’s newest formats) for light writing. For project-oriented stuff (like Hair of the Dog, which requires a lot of notes), I like Storyist.
I don’t need presentation software, but if I did, I’d use Keynote. I’ve played with it, and it’s quite good. Much better than PowerPoint.
I just use Google Docs. Have moved pretty much everything there from M$oft in the past year. Couldn’t support paying over $300 per seat when the open source products get us 90% of the same functionality (and 100% of what we actually use day in and day out) for free.
I’d be an OpenOffice user if I needed more than word-processing, or if I needed OO’s word-processor more than I need the time I spend waiting for OO to OOpen.
I settle for WordPad these days.