Does anyone know of a free or paid word processor that can
a) edit font type, size italics bold and underline
b) set page margins along with header and footer
and c) have spellcheck and/or grammar check
with a ok looking UI that is compatible with the prime?
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I don't know that there are any with spell/grammar check but having used QuickOffice Pro HD, Kingsoft Office, and OfficeSuite Pro 6 (all of which are on my Prime right now), I can't give a high enough recommendation to OfficeSuite Pro 6. It's head and shoulders above the rest of the office programs out there.
Kingsoft Office is 100% free, and well worth it to have; it suffers largely from not being able to search for text or jump to pages, and I don't think it handles bullets and lists and such very well; however, for a free office app it's pretty full-featured.
OfficeSuite Pro just keeps getting better and better with each release, and I expect it won't be long before they add spell and grammar check, and the ability to create headers and footers (it supports headers and footers in pre-existing docs now). It's $15 or $20, I think, but well worth the purchase price.
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kingsoft
Kingsoft is a very complete wP, and includes page setup functionalities, you can set the paper type/size as well as the margins, but so far header and footer are not part of the package, as far as i can tell. also lack of del (shift + backspace) and lack of ctrl + direction keys to advance one word at a time are annoying;
still recommend because the support team is very responsive and with time and community feedback it could become a really solid wP
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I don't know that there are any with spell/grammar check but having used QuickOffice Pro HD, Kingsoft Office, and OfficeSuite Pro 6 (all of which are on my Prime right now), I can't give a high enough recommendation to OfficeSuite Pro 6. It's head and shoulders above the rest of the office programs out there.
Kingsoft Office is 100% free, and well worth it to have; it suffers largely from not being able to search for text or jump to pages, and I don't think it handles bullets and lists and such very well; however, for a free office app it's pretty full-featured.
OfficeSuite Pro just keeps getting better and better with each release, and I expect it won't be long before they add spell and grammar check, and the ability to create headers and footers (it supports headers and footers in pre-existing docs now). It's $15 or $20, I think, but well worth the purchase price.
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Sounds good, already have Kingsoft.
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Use OnLive Desktop it is hands down the best thing out there!
tylermaciaszek said:
Use OnLive Desktop it is hands down the best thing out there!
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Still not released in UK
BiggerH said:
Still not released in UK
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hello. I'm asking this here for avoiding create a new thread.
I'm having problems with polaris office. The main problem is when switching through apps I loose everithing I wrote after some time (if I don't save the file). It seems that the program is cleaned from memory...
Is there any solution to this? Is there any other office app that doesn't do this?
thanks
See my response above as to good alternatives. Polaris office is awful.
jdeoxys said:
Does anyone know of a free or paid word processor that can
a) edit font type, size italics bold and underline
b) set page margins along with header and footer
and c) have spellcheck and/or grammar check
with a ok looking UI that is compatible with the prime?
Sent from my tf9001 with XDA XD.
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Aside from grammar checking Polaris Office can do all of these things. Spell check works through the normal Android spell checking system that gets applied to everything you type. It might not be as robust as you were looking for, but it is there.
Quickoffice PRO HD nuff said. It's basically Microsoft Office for Android.
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Hi All. I know this is more related to Android but after your thoughts on programs to view and edit office documents, in particularly excel.
I've recently looked at Office 365 but unsure how well it works on Android and a 1280x800 screen, also not sure how much data it will suck when hotspotted with my phone.
Polaris office came stock on my galaxy s2 and find that not to be overly feature full, nor are any of the others from my understanding, in particular excel.
Yeh I know the Prime is not a laptop or desktop replacement but I would probably use it for the odd bit of work if it had something better than Polaris Office.
Quickoffice Pro HD or Documents to Go
Both handle office 2010 files
Thanks for the reply.
But I realise there are many that handle office 2010 files, with none that completely stand out are more personal preference, but they aren't exactly fully functional. Polaris is meant to be reasonable but I found it is no where near deep in functionality. For example, I have found Excel is not useful for anything but very basic spreadsheets.
But Office 365 is meant to be fully functional, but cloud based, and searching didn't say how well it worked on an android tablet
One thing I've always found really helpful is Google Documents. You can create, edit and share documents in it.
Write it in Google Docs, edit it on your computer before sending it. As an online college student, it has made my life a whole lot easier. It's free as well so it's worth checking out
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I forgot to mention that you can create on a phone but download onto a computer where you can add your specific formatting later. This means you don't necessarily have to have a full featured office package on your phone as long as your computer has interwebz and can get to gDocs.
Cheers. I'll give it a go on my galaxy s2 while I wait patiently for the asus prime
I knew about google docs but not really looked at it much.
pbrown77 said:
Cheers. I'll give it a go on my galaxy s2 while I wait patiently for the asus prime
I knew about google docs but not really looked at it much.
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Also remember that the tablet version of quickoffice pro hd is tablet exclusive and have a different UI and more advanced functions than the phone based quickoffice pro.
As you said, none of the android specific office suites are full featured, but I think that they're getting closer. Also, they do provide functionality that most users would think is complete. It'll be a long time before you see pivot tables and odbc hooks in tablet office suites.
I found this.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...csel-now-free-on-getjar-gold-previously-9-99/
Looks like it works pretty well... I don't have or use it but I figure you could try it out and see if it does the trick.
Polaris on the tablet isn't too bad
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I've read somewhere in the forum (can't remember where ) that you couldn't use google doc (the web app) on the first transformer's browser... Is this true ? And on the prime ?
And is there an HD or tablet version of the google doc android app ?
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I've read somewhere in the forum (can't remember where ) that you couldn't use google doc (the web app) on the first transformer's browser... Is this true ? And on the prime ?
And is there an HD or tablet version of the google doc android app ?
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the Google doc app works fine in the og transformer. Also can use In browser, just get kb lag like hell if you do that.
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Anything better than the stock Polaris Office?
Buddy Revell said:
Anything better than the stock Polaris Office?
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I day say that quick office pro HD is the best, due to it being HC/ICS oriented.
Go to the TF101 apps forum and you will find a detailed comparison of all the major suites; Polaris is fine enough for when I need to view a doc/sheet.
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Another vote for Quickoffice Pro HD. It's tablet friendly, easy to create new stuff as well as edit what you have and it can sync with a bunch of your cloud accounts like dropbox, box, evernote and g docs.
I like Documents to Go. Works fine on my Prime.
I prefer Quick Office HD, but Documents To Go is fine too.
If I go to the market, I get the message that Quick Office HD is incompatible with my Transformer Prime. Is it because I'm in the UK..? Weird.
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If I go to the market, I get the message that Quick Office HD is incompatible with my Transformer Prime. Is it because I'm in the UK..? Weird.
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Add Canada to that list. I can't see it in the market either.
I think they might have pulled it because I'm in the US and I can't find it either
Another vote for Quickoffice though ThinkFree isn't too bad either. I hate Polaris.
+1 for documents to go
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Hi, I installed Picsel SmartOffice+, and it works very great, with awesome edit possibilitys. works a bit like MS Office. In the market about 7 euro, at Jetgar for free!
I normally use Office Suite Pro. It's got all the features I need and it's for honeycomb, it's not free ($10) but I got it as the free app on Amazon one day.
The spreadsheet in polaris office seems to be alpha quality to me. Date formats don't match up.
I've found nothing which allows me to enter 11/3/10 for March 11 2010, so I'm now back to using openoffice over vnc. Seems quite tragic for android.
I read somewhere that Libreoffice suite should have Android (and iOS) port this year, would be great...
After playing with Documents 2 Go and OfficeSuite 5, I prefer Officesuite which has formatting options as a bar rather than hidden in the menu key like in Documents 2 Go. Don't have QuickOffice so haven't had a chance to compare with that.
Further to the earlier poster, I include the link to the thread on this topic from the original transfomer thread. It's phenomenally helpful!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085173
Very promising app:
Kingsoft Office : free totally, compatible with Microsoft Office read/write.
Great suggestions, guys. I'm also interested in what Onlive is doing with Microsoft Office. So far, though, they only have an app for iOS.
http://desktop.onlive.com/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/13/onlive-desktop-hits-the-itunes-app-store/
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I normally use Office Suite Pro. It's got all the features I need and it's for honeycomb, it's not free ($10) but I got it as the free app on Amazon one day.
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I too got it for free from Amazon free app of the day, and it works really well. Even at $9.99 it's worth it if you are going to use it regularly.
With new apps coming out all the time and new feature updates, want to see what everyone thinks is currently the best office suite app available for Android.
**If there is a paid & free version of these than assume it is the paid/full version.
Feel free to comment as well.
I feel I need to qualify my vote. I voted documents to go, because it is the best for tablets, though I much prefer quickoffice pro on my phone.
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I believe that Polaris office is the best I just wish that I could have more control with this app like.being able.to save in different formats and even create new docs
I like quickoffice pro HD due to its cloud integration and ability to create new documents. also it's look and feel is closer to the original MS Office.
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I like quickoffice pro HD due to its cloud integration and ability to create new documents. also it's look and feel is closer to the original MS Office.
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I got quickoffice pro hd for free from an amazon giveaway, but I really don't find it useful. None of the doc or docx formatting translates correctly between desktop word and the android v. A 1 page paper will become 1.5, margins will shift, and spacing will change.
Hello everyone. I am new to the forum. I tried posting this under the Asus transformer section, but due to me having less that enough posts it said I must post in general.
So I tried looking on the forum for exactly what I wanted and could not find it. I want an app that will let me edit any office or PDF file and let me to do it with a stylus writing freehand. I don't want to merely edit and just write in text, or highlight I want to be able to use my stylus and actually circle a word in power point, or be able to write notes freehand with the stylus on the side of the PPT. I do notice that Adobe let's me kind of do it with it's reader, but it just feels really laggy for me. If there is an APP available for me to try I don't mind if I even have to purchase it due to it being used for school.
Please give me your input! and thank you for letting me be apart of your community!
Polaris Office which is included free with your Transformer Prime let's you create and edit Word, Excel and Power Point files. I don't know about scribble-annotating them since I don't believe that the Microsoft Office Suite knows how to display that kind of notation. Also for any meaningful editing you will need the onscreen keyboard or keyboard dock.
As for editing PDF files, I don't know of any apps off the top of my head that will do what you ask. You might try searching the Play Store.
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Polaris Office which is included free with your Transformer Prime let's you create and edit Word, Excel and Power Point files. I don't know about scribble-annotating them since I don't believe that the Microsoft Office Suite knows how to display that kind of notation. Also for any meaningful editing you will need the onscreen keyboard or keyboard dock.
As for editing PDF files, I don't know of any apps off the top of my head that will do what you ask. You might try searching the Play Store.
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Yeah I tried Polaris office...and I really want to do free hand scribble editing. PDF editing I am actually ok with Adobe as it lets me do what I want, but I really need something else for my office programs, because I am going to use this for school in lecture. I do have the keyboard as well, but I want to be as light as possible with just the tablet and stylus in hand.
I use ezPDF Reader Pro for PDF annotations for notes from my professors at school. I think it was $2.99 in the play store. It works great.
I havent found a good office app. Polaris Office, though it came on the prime free, is buggy and is limited on formatting. It works great for basic docs. You can only save in .doc format and docs i have created sometimes look way different when opened on a computer. But it does work.
I am still looking for the best app for an Office suite on android. Although SoftMaker Office mobile is coming along great. It is in beta still.
Find it at the following:
www.softmaker.net/down/TestMaker.apk for word
www.softmaker.net/down/PlanMaker.apk for excel
www.softmaker.net/down/Presentations.apk for powerpoint
Have you tried using the dedicated writing programs for use with the stylus already (just to see if you can even tolerate writing with the Prime)? Even with the apps to improve the TFP's response to stylus input they're still not something that's even remotely efficient to take notes with. If you just want to draw arrows or circle things or make quick (but relatively large) drawings, it's okay.
I generally annotated my pdfs using Repligo reader. I could do light annotations with the stylus and enter comments in stickies. You could easily convert powerpoints into pdfs and comment on them that way.
As far as I know there isn't any Office app that supports inking yet, which isn't that odd since most suites can't even do basic tasks like display charts properly in Excel and Powerpoint.
IMHO, Android is still pretty abysmal when it comes to doing this sort of thing.
The official adobe reader app lets you scribble annotate straight out of the box. I use it regularly
Office Pro 6
I don't know if it will solve your issues, but Office Pro 6 is on sale at the Amazon App store for $.99. It's normally $15.
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Systems-Inc-OfficeSuite-Professional/dp/B0051UP5NQ/ref=mas_6pack_productivity_Suite_link?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=054VF38RVZ32RE41XXGQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1371696742&pf_rd_i=2350149011
I think it's better than Polaris, especially on spreadsheets.
BTW first off let me thank all of you for your responses! I did know about adobe having its native edit and I had stated above I was fine with that . Although on the other hand, the power point is the BIGGEST one I have an issue with. Although punitenshu I like your idea the most which is just to convert it over to PDF...I just didn't want to do that every time I received a new lecture.....Thank you everyone you have been such a big help!
Repligo Reader hands down. If you really fussy about accuracy, use it in conjunction with touchscreen tuner.
Hi, I purchased the TF300 a while back but didn't purchase the dock with it. I recently purchased the dock and entered my first year in University. Since I'm new to using an Android tablet for school work, are there any apps that you can recommend? Thanks.
Kingsoft Office is a very good mobile office suit, you can save the files as .doc(x) so editing them at home with your desktop is possible, it's fast intuitive and easy to learn.
I'd highly recommend a good and fast PDF reader, something like readaee pro is a good investment. ezpdf is not bad but you clearly need to decline some of it's permissions the app is way to nosy.
Also a good file-manager such as Root-Explorer, Total-Commander can save you a lot of team and helps to organize your pdf, uni files.
Quickoffice, iAnnotate, ES file explorer, and Any.do would be my recommendation
The one you will find is the place that you are not looking, and no, it is not behind you
The new google docs app is now much more dock friendly, and I end up using that a lot because my school has google domain accounts for everyone.
For offline, I do use Kingston as someone else previously mentioned.
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maybe "Remote Desktop". together with the dock it could work out well...
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maybe "Remote Desktop". together with the dock it could work out well...
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Splashtop is very good.
Here's one I have found useful. Overdrive Media Console. You can use it to access books from your local library.
Splash top + one note on the computer
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I know its abit late but i use Handrite + Adonit Jot Classic to take notes during my classes makes if you like hand writing as much as I do you'll find this combination really usefull
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I know its abit late but i use Handrite + Adonit Jot Classic to take notes during my classes makes if you like hand writing as much as I do you'll find this combination really usefull
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My adonit jot scratched my screen, permanently.
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My adonit jot scratched my screen, permanently.
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Atually i notice that happens when theres "dust"bettwen the screen and the tip, I have a screen protector but i do see small lines not really visible if you aint looking for them
I'm an editor. I use polaris office, read pdf with perfect viewer (and pdf addon), transfer files with teamviewer (also great to check up on my pc @ home), extensively use es explorer for ftp & cloud surfing, also, airdroid comes in handy when having to upload a file on the fly