Documents To Go: Finally, an Office Suite for the iPad
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Documents To Go Premium, the office-suite software from DataViz, has been updated to support iPad. The $12 app lets you sync and edit most office documents on most mobile devices.
The big problem with using the iPad for any kind of work has been the clunky file syncing. Dropbox and the like are great ways to get all your documents on the go, but if you edited them you’d have to re-upload, or re-sync via iTunes, and end up with multiple iterations of your files.
Documents To Go fixes that. Because it is both a file repository and an editor, you can make changes to your files and save them without creating multiple copies. You can use the rather clunky desktop app to get documents in from your PC or Mac, but far more elegant is support for DropBox, SugarSync, Mobile Me, Google Docs which lets you grab documents from the cloud to edit them.
Documents To Go works with all MS Office files (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and will also open text files and iWork files (Pages files work fine: Numbers files show up as folders, oddly). You can also create new files in the Microsoft formats.
It’s certainly not perfect, and navigation can be a little confusing, but right now its the closest thing we have to an office suite on the iPad. Best of all, if you already have Docs To Premium on your iPhone, this update is free.
Documents To Go Premium [iTunes]
See Also:
- Dropbox Updated for iPad, External Editing Added
- Box.net for iPad Solves File-Transfer Troubles
- Simplenote and Notational Velocity Bring Document Syncing to iPad …
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