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Desktop to iPad MS Office conversion Apple'sPages/Numbers/Keynote docs
On 2015-08-13 00:32, MNMikeW wrote:
How does Apple's Pages/Numbers/Keynote interface with Microsoft Office? Poorly. While Apple's apps will read the MS formatted docs, once in there they are natively saved in Apple's formats for the apps you name above. From there you need to "Export" to the MS format if you want to read/edit it in that app. 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. Not if everyone stays in a given eco system. If everyone there uses Apple formatted docs, then it's pretty moot. If they're mixing systems (iPads for some; MS desk/laptops for others) then there will be mixups. 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 If not needed then it's not needed. The real issue is when a company goes "all in" on Apple but then finds customers, suppliers, government contacts, collaborators and employees working from other locations (home, an employee in another city, etc.) that continuously flipping formats is a royal PITA. 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. Above. 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). Apple does a very good job importing. That's no guarantee that there won't be minor differences a lot of the time or major differrences from time to time. Likewise, if she creates a document on Apple's equivalent, how well do they load into MS Office. They won't. They have to be "Exported" from the Apple app to the MS format. Bear in mind that I have decades of experience with file format transfers, but I have ZERO experience with this particular set. I can usually convert anything to anything else, after a few weeks of research, and almost NONE are ever any good in the end when dealing with complex documents (which most are). Always true. So, it's only useful to help answer the question if someone who answers actually has experience with the question, which is: In practice, how well does the conversion of desktop MS Office to iPad Apple equivalent actually work, in both directions, for complex docs? It's ****. Avoid it. |
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