Has anyone been able to install any of the Office for Android tablet preview apps on the PadFone X/S? Google Play Store considers the PadFone X incompatible for Microsoft Excel Preview, Microsoft Word Preview, and Microsoft PowerPoint Preview.
http://blogs.office.com/2015/01/06/office-android-tablet-preview-expands/
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chp said:
Has anyone been able to install any of the Office for Android tablet preview apps on the PadFone X/S? Google Play Store considers the PadFone X incompatible for Microsoft Excel Preview, Microsoft Word Preview, and Microsoft PowerPoint Preview.
http://blogs.office.com/2015/01/06/office-android-tablet-preview-expands/
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I was able to install Microsoft Word on the Padfone X today. I had to install on my Nexus 7 and pull the APK from it and install on the Padfone. It runs when in "phone" mode but it isn't usable (much of the screen is cut off and there is no way to pan). However, when I dropped my phone into the tablet, Word restarted and it is very usable on the 9" inch display.
My take is that you would need a different Office Viewer for phone mode but could use the Microsoft app when docked and you wanted to do some serious work.
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I'm loving my phone. Even with the "heavier" motoblur, it's still faster than my barebones Nexus One.
I wish Moto would start kicking out some webtop apps. Anybody found some good browser plug-ins?
Root your phone, start installing some .deb packages? You can always do that.
The majority of Firefox add-ons will work just fine as-is. I've got ABP and a few others installed. The plugins are another issue though. I've tried getting Oracle's embedded JRE 1.6.0_21 for armv7 to work on the webtop but for whatever reason, it won't load. I need to find gdb for arm to debug this.
Webtop app selection not very impressive
I agree; I would love to see more webtop applications.
I was impressed to see that there is an Adobe Acrobat viewer in the webtop mode, but I was disappointed to see that Microsoft Office files (word, excel, powerpoint) load in the QuickOffice App on the Mobile Viewer and not in a webtop app.
I thought the idea for this device was that it's a laptop in your pocket. How can Motorola say that this is a laptop replacement when you can't use a decent viewer/editor to edit and present Office documents?
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that there will be some real webtop apps that will use the higher resolution available to make this device a decent contender for some serious computing.
When I first heard of the concept I was hoping there would be Chrome instead of firefox and that you could be able to use the chrome webapp store.
Mark Sly said:
I agree; I would love to see more webtop applications.
I was impressed to see that there is an Adobe Acrobat viewer in the webtop mode, but I was disappointed to see that Microsoft Office files (word, excel, powerpoint) load in the QuickOffice App on the Mobile Viewer and not in a webtop app.
I thought the idea for this device was that it's a laptop in your pocket. How can Motorola say that this is a laptop replacement when you can't use a decent viewer/editor to edit and present Office documents?
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that there will be some real webtop apps that will use the higher resolution available to make this device a decent contender for some serious computing.
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It's worth noting that Motorola announced all of their future devices released after June will support webtop. That's huge in terms of ongoing support for the platform.
I thought the apps would open in the webtop apps for office too. Kinda cheesy. Maybe they'll change that...
There's hardly enough room on the webtop partition to install much of anything like OpenOffice, so using the QuickOffice on the android portion seems logical. One could easily use Google Docs though via browser to read/edit any Office type documents.
I use Google docs but someone I know refuses to depend on the "Google Man". Flash block plug-in is a good one too. I just see a market for Motorola with small cheap apps...
There's a browser app called Cricut Craft Room that you can sign in to and create cut files with to cut on a Cricut machine. Craftroom dot cricut dot com. On the Nook Tablet, though, when you go to that webpage and try to login, no keyboard is presented so you can't login! Someone on the Cricut FB forum said, "Ok folks - I know the reason Craft Room won't work on the tablets, android or the ipad Craft Room runs on Adobe Air and there isn't a version of the that for the tablets - guess I will be returning mine since it was one of the reasons I thought I needed the tablet." But I DO have Adobe Air on my Nook Tablet! Any ideas??
Hi all, don't know if this is a question or just a statement, leaning towards the latter:
Has anyone noticed that this device may come with a reader built in? I saw that you could launch with Adobe Reader, but when clicking around in Dropbox, suddenly I was able to use the QuickOffice Pro HD app to view things. I understand why this device would need this app, but when looking in Google Play, it doesn't seem to show up as purchased (and it's kind of confirmed in device with the fact that you cannot launch the app independently).
Another thought: I've only tested with PDFs launched from dropbox, that may be the reason. Maybe this is another reason to use dropbox? Unsure, but very curious feature, may affect how people would treat device (especially since I cannot zoom in and out of standard Adobe Reader, which is driving me nuts).
Back to studying for midterm in 8 hours, any thoughts? :fingers-crossed:
I also noticed this when using Google drive. I opened a .doc file and it used quick office to display the file (in read only mode). As you, I don't have quick office installed.
hefferman said:
I also noticed this when using Google drive. I opened a .doc file and it used quick office to display the file (in read only mode). As you, I don't have quick office installed.
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Not that this helps much but I just opened a file n dropbox and they gave me the choice of what program to use and quick office was on the list and it worked great. I didn't download it either.
Google bought QuickOffice and probably working to implement it fully into the Android maybe. That is interesting it doesn't show up anywhere else. I love using Quick office HD in my Infinity and is my go to productivity software.
QuckOffice was acquired by Google a while back....
http://www.quickoffice.com/google_acquires_quickoffice/
So it may be a part of the OS install, it doesn't show in the app drawer but it shows under apps/all in the system menu.
This is great news. Work is buying me an N10 so I will need something that can edit Office documents. I was considering buying Quickoffice.
I noticed this when I tried to backup QuickOffice Pro in Titanium Backup.
Does anyone of you use your Transformer Pad for writing documents? I would do so if I would find a good office app. But unfortionally I can't find one. When I'm at home I use CloudOn, because it's nearly the same as Microsoft Office and does not mess up my documents. The problem is that I want to use my Transformer for writing when I'm in school. But I don't have a wifi connection there. Therefore I search for the ultimate Office App which works without internet and does not mess up my Office 2010 documents. Any recommendations?
Hi, have you tried Polaris Office? It does word, excel & powerpoint
here is a thread with download link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2099584
Cloud on? Is it for Linux?
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I tried it out but it does not seem to install. Can't flash the. zip. Maybe there is a problem with the other version which comes provided with CleanRom 3.1? Is there also version 4.0 out there for our Pad?
Edit: OK, same problem as with any other app i`ve tried. Polaris does not seem to stick to my custom font layout. I like to keep my text very compact which seems to be the problem. If I open up my documents with Polaris they are larger (one or more pages longer). So I need an office alternative which is as close to Microsoft Office as possible.
Cloud On is a cloud based office solution but does only work with cloud services (eg. Drop box,Google drive, box, etc.) I highly recommend it when you need to work at home
Is there an alternative to Polaris?
Ok tried to install lastest Polaris Office v4.0.3212.13, would not install. then tried v4.0.3210.07, it installed but kepts force closing.
I running Energy Rom by NRGZ28.
The only alternative I have tried is Kingsoft Office from the play store, seems pretty good and is free.
Kingsoft Office doesn't do the job for me either :/ No advanced settings for fonts or any other fonts. I also tried OfficeSuite Pro. But same result here. All of the apps are not capable to align my text correctly. I think I'll need to wait for the official Microsoft Office or the new Polaris.
Btw. I found my problem. It seems like all the apps don't support the settings of Office 2010 which I have currently in use. However, if I save my files in the older format (Word 97 - 2003) all apps seem to work just fine. But I go with Polaris for now Thanks again ;D:fingers-crossed:
EDIT: I was WRONG! All of them screw up... I just didn't notice that when I either save it in the new or the old format my text is simply wrong. My testdocument is 6 Pages long. But all of the apps align it to 7.
Any ideas on how to fix that? Maybe the different resolutions of my desktop and the tablet are the problem...
Mabye Microsoft Office on your tab
Hi, just thought of a way to maybe get MS Office running on android tab.
There are Linux Installer apps on the play store which allow you to install linux distro's on android, you could then install MS Office on linux using something like 'playonlinux' or 'wine'. Not sure if this would work but will give it a go over the weekend and let you know. If anyone has already tried this can you tell how it went.
pjc21 said:
Hi, just thought of a way to maybe get MS Office running on android tab.
There are Linux Installer apps on the play store which allow you to install linux distro's on android, you could then install MS Office on linux using something like 'playonlinux' or 'wine'. Not sure if this would work but will give it a go over the weekend and let you know. If anyone has already tried this can you tell how it went.
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Wine on Arm Linux will not run programs compiled for Intel x86: http://wiki.winehq.org/ARM
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Wine on Arm Linux will not run programs compiled for Intel x86
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Ok thanks, I'll skip giving that a go then. Will just have to wait for Office 15 for arm to come out, should be sometime this year.
AW: The ultimate Office App
The best office suite for Android is made by Softmaker. The word processor is called Ofice2012:textmaker and is a port from the Softmaker office for Windows and Linux. There is also an app for spreadsheets and a presentation app. In comparison to polarised office you get a well designed office suite with good import filters for MS docx or xlsx files.
For a comparison between different android office apps go to Softmaker website. We (can't paste URL)
It was well reviewed by the German Computer magazine C't.
However, I this quality comes with a price tag. You pay around €28 for the whole package. Money well invested
Cheers
Alex
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda premium
johndoe1972 said:
The best office suite for Android is made by Softmaker.
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Thanks, just downloaded the free trail.
AW: The ultimate Office App
johndoe1972 said:
The best office suite for Android is made by Softmaker. The word processor is called Ofice2012:textmaker and is a port from the Softmaker office for Windows and Linux. There is also an app for spreadsheets and a presentation app. In comparison to polarised office you get a well designed office suite with good import filters for MS docx or xlsx files.
For a comparison between different android office apps go to Softmaker website. We (can't paste URL)
It was well reviewed by the German Computer magazine C't.
However, I this quality comes with a price tag. You pay around €28 for the whole package. Money well invested
Cheers
Alex
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda premium
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Thanks! This is just the app I needed! Transfers all my word documents perfectly. This is really the ultimate Office App for me
As you all know, tab s6 lite has a screen more than 10 inches. So microsoft is not allowing us to work on Microsoft office app without office 360 subscription.
Is there any method to make the app to work on this tab.
Thankyou.
kushalperfection said:
As you all know, tab s6 lite has a screen more than 10 inches. So microsoft is not allowing us to work on Microsoft office app without office 360 subscription.
Is there any method to make the app to work on this tab.
Thankyou.
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Is there any alternate good app like microsoft office and free.
you can use Google sheets / Docs / Slides :good:
I do recommend OfficeSuite. It even has several Microsoft fonts like arial, calibri, times new roman...
I have been using LibreOffice since I switched from M$FT products to Linux a year ago. It has been very stable, and quite compatible with every version of MS-Office files that others have sent me to edit/review.
There is an Android/iOS port of that called Collabra Office available in the Android/Apple stores and an APK can also be found at F-Droid. I plan on using that on my S6, so I'll let you know my opinions after using it for a while.