Desktop to iPad MS Office conversion Apple's Pages/Numbers/Keynote docs

Previously on comp.mobile.ipad, MNMikeW said:

How does Apple's Pages/Numbers/Keynote interface with Microsoft Office?

Badly.

A friend has a new job where they issue an iPad instead of a laptop,
but I was warning them that you really need MS Office to create and
share documents.

Technically not true. But if you (your friend) wants the best fidelity
with MS Office, then get the MS Office apps for iOS. They're free and
can use local docs, OneDrive and DropBox. With an Office 365
subscription, you get more features.

If you want decent fidelity, not as good as MS Office apps themselves
but better than the feature loss of converting back and forth between
Apple Works and MS Office, there are other office suites available for
iOS.

Her options are, as I see them:
1. Use Apple's equivalent product to create & share documents,
2. Download the free (crippled) version of MS Office,
3. Ask them to purchase MS Office

For personal use, the MS suite for iOS isn't crippled too badly. I'm
not trying to use it in an enterprise environment, so I really can't
speak to what's missing without the subscription.

Before she even gets to asking for option 3, she has to have her
ducks lined up, so, to that end, I ask how the Apple equivalent works
when interfacing with the MS Office equivalents.

Badly. At least the last time I tried, a few years ago.

Specifically, if she has documents she created on MS Windows MS Office,
will they be easily and correctly read into Apple's equivalent (I warned
her that file format transfers almost never work except for simple
documents).

As you noted, only simple documents will translate well. One of the
nails in the Apple Works coffin for me was spreadsheets. Even
relatively simple formula didn't translate well, causing me formatting
and data loss issues.

Likewise, if she creates a document on Apple's equivalent, how well
do they load into MS Office.

Do I really have to say "badly" again?

In practice, how well does the conversion of desktop MS Office to iPad
Apple equivalent actually work, in both directions, for complex docs?

Badly.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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In article , Jeffrey
Kaplan wrote:

In practice, how well does the conversion of desktop MS Office to iPad
Apple equivalent actually work, in both directions, for complex docs?

Badly.

nonsense.

Previously on comp.mobile.ipad, nospam said:

In article , Jeffrey
Kaplan wrote:

In practice, how well does the conversion of desktop MS Office to iPad
Apple equivalent actually work, in both directions, for complex docs?

Badly.

nonsense.

Personal experience. I've lost formatting and formulae in Excel
spreadsheets from porting back and forth to Numbers on my iPad. I've
lost formatting in Word docs porting back and forth to Pages on my
iPad.

Apple Works apps do NOT use MS Office formats at all internally.
Rather, you have to import and convert and then export and convert. As
other have also noted, this causes problems with document fidelity -
something gets lost in translation.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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