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Hey everyone ... my school gave me an IPad2 today and needless to say I have never played/worked with Apple products. With that being said I was hoping I could find out a few things:

1. What's the "best" office suite I can get which will allow me to view/edit my MS documents (Word, Excel, PPoint) and create new docs?

2. How exactly do I get my MS docs into the IPad2?

3. I saw someone mentioned a Bamboo stylus; love to know more about that and how its going.

Thanks in advance :-)
 
cjwct said:
Hey everyone ... my school gave me an IPad2 today and needless to say I have never played/worked with Apple products. With that being said I was hoping I could find out a few things:

1. What's the "best" office suite I can get which will allow me to view/edit my MS documents (Word, Excel, PPoint) and create new docs?

2. How exactly do I get my MS docs into the IPad2?

3. I saw someone mentioned a Bamboo stylus; love to know more about that and how its going.

Thanks in advance :-)
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I like Quick Office Pro HD. Its better than Documents to Go. Pages is a nice word processor, but is really for folks who have pages on a mac.

I get docs on the ipad many ways. I have a Dropbox.com account, and use Dropbox's ipad app to bring files in and out of the iPad. I also use an app called ReaddleDocs, which is a great file manager. It can sync dropbox as well as google docs, and several other "cloud" programs.

I still love the Bamboo stylus. Its a great stylus. Well worth the $29. Indeed, I used it at a meeting tonight for about 2 hours. YEAH, a LONG meeting. :) I use it with UPad, a very nice notes app.

welcome to the world of the iPad.
 
rockymtnhigh said:
I like Quick Office Pro HD. Its better than Documents to Go. Pages is a nice word processor, but is really for folks who have pages on a mac.

I get docs on the ipad many ways. I have a Dropbox.com account, and use Dropbox's ipad app to bring files in and out of the iPad. I also use an app called ReaddleDocs, which is a great file manager. It can sync dropbox as well as google docs, and several other "cloud" programs.

I still love the Bamboo stylus. Its a great stylus. Well worth the $29. Indeed, I used it at a meeting tonight for about 2 hours. YEAH, a LONG meeting. :) I use it with UPad, a very nice notes app.

welcome to the world of the iPad.
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Thanks so much. I feel dumb I didn't think of Dropbox :-) Does Quick Office Pro allow you to create docs as well? Also, after taking notes with the Stylus are the notes converted into a Word doc?
 
cjwct said:
Thanks so much. I feel dumb I didn't think of Dropbox :-) Does Quick Office Pro allow you to create docs as well? Also, after taking notes with the Stylus are the notes converted into a Word doc?
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Yes, but not with the stylus. You use the keyboard.

The documents I create wi IPad get converted into PDF and exported via email or Dropbox. Dropbox is pretty universally supported on a lot of iPad apps.

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The new "Newspapers" and magazine bookshelf in iOS5 is now actually working -- for some apps. Nat Geo and Popular Mechanics are now showing up in my bookshelf. I like it!
 
Scott Greczkowski said:
I cant find any magazine in the App Store...
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I was suscribed to Popular Mechanics and National Geographic, and they just popped up in there after an update. Same with The New Yorker. Time, Wired, and the few others I use are not there.

And I don't ever expect to see the Zinio magazines I subscribe to there. But I could be wrong. Been wrong before on occasion. :)
 
isaacmorseMI said:
Do you have iTunes 10.5? You need that to update to iOS 5.
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Yes

rockymtnhigh said:
For whatever reason 10.3.5 is iOS 5. BUT when I tried to install it, it crapped out right after extracting the software on my wife's iPad. I'll probably just use the Gold Master that I have.
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Read just now about several download and install issues. Servers overloaded.

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stimpson said:
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Read just now about several download and install issues. Servers overloaded.

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I figured something like that. Will try it again tonight later, or just wait a few days. She doesn't know what she is missing, and won't care. LOL
 
rockymtnhigh said:
I figured something like that. Will try it again tonight later, or just wait a few days. She doesn't know what she is missing, and won't care. LOL
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Just downloaded iOS 5 on my iPad. Can't play with icloud until I convert mobile me to icloud, but trying to do so throws an error and says try again later. PITA. It's not a big deal, especially since it won't be that useful to be until there's a jailbreak of iOS 5 so that I can upgrade my iPhone 4. Once I've done that, then music and photo synch will be useful.

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Yep. Mine crapping out after extracting software. Gives an "unknown error". WTF. Wife's downloading update now, and saying 2 hrs remaining. Gonna be a long night.
 
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