How To Edit Word Documents On Your Brand New iPad
When we say iPad we can not help ourselves from thinking why we love this device so much. The huge screen size. This awesome screen size combined with the excellent virtual keyboard Apple has accustomed us with, makes you able to start writing your memoirs or even start working at a future bestseller. Either you are a journalist, you use Microsoft Word documents for work, or just once in a while, there are a variety of methods that can help you with that. Even though Microsoft has not released an official version of Microsoft Word for iOS, there are many alternatives available to help you get started.
How To Open Word documents on your iPad
For simply opening Word documents on your iPad you just need to sync those files to your device. Nowadays the iOS can display and open any Word document without any effort. If you do not want to sync, you have the simple alternative of emailing the Word documents to yourself, or just save a draft with the attached document, then open your Email account from your iPad and just download the attachment. Other alternatives that can ease this process, include a vast variety of applications that can be found in the Apple Application Store like? Air Sharing, GoodReader or RaddleDocs for iPad. Those of you who already knew how to open and view a Word document on their iPad are probably wondering how to edit a word document on their iPad. This part is not as straight forward as the reading part but with? little patience, it can be done!
How To Edit Word Documents on your iPad.
As you imagined there is more than one way to edit word documents on your iPad. Up next we will try to present you some options along with a short description and in some cases a short walk-through.
1. Apple’s Pages
A simple and reliable app for editing your word documents is the Pages app. This app has an import and export in Word format feature and is quite user-friendly. We do not have to teach you how to use it, as it’s quite straightforward.
If you want to transfer you Word documents from your PC to your iPad and you are using Mountain Lion as well as iCloud, the process is very simple. The iCloud Documents feature is doing it’s job very well in this case. The only bad part is that you will not be able to keep formatting as well as comments or the file attributes when you try to open the document with Microsoft Word or you want to save it with a MS Word (.doc or .docx) extension . To solve this problem you can simply use iWork.
2. Google Docs
Another option wold be to try Google Docs. Google docs is a free office suite that is based on a web platform. The main advantage of Google Docs it that you don’t have to install any additional software in order to edit, save or share documents. It works very well and can save you some money. So why shouldn’t the iPad also benefit from these awesome features? The only drawback is format conversion. When you upload a document to Google Docs and you want to start editing, it will be converted to another Google Docs specific format. If you do not get upset by letting Google Docs converting your headers, spacing or margins you are ready to start editing as long as the file does noe exceed 2MB.
When you access Google Docs from any iOS device you will be redirected to the mobile version. The mobile version of Google Docs does not support formatting so you may want to switch to the Full Version of the website by tapping on the Full Version link.
On the other hand, we must warn you that editing Word documents on your iPad is a matter of trial and error as many folks get it right and the exact way they want it after some practice.
3. Edit Word Documents On Your iPad Using An Office Suite
Another approach would be relying on different apps that use Google Docs or other similar services to help you edit Word Documents on your iPad.
One of them is Documents To Go Premium App that keeps all formatting and file characteristics, after you sync the file. This way you can be sure you didn’t lose your formatting after you transferred the document from your PC to your iPad. The app is also able to count the number of words you used or adjust your paragraphs.
Office 2 HD is another very good app that keeps all formatting characteristics after the transfer. It also features a wide range of options like selecting text color , ordered lists , unordered lists. font dimension or style. Virtually you can do anything you do in a standard desktop office editor like adding footnotes, verify if the spelling is correct and so on. Another awesome feature in Office HD is the ability to display the correct background color (feature that many iPad Word editors are lacking).
