In Word, for example, Office for iPad preserves the footnoting capability but cuts out the “Mailings” and “References” headings. Quite frankly, I prefer it to working in Office 2013, if only because Microsoft organizes the most commonly-used functions so intuitively, using an icon-driven ribbon at the top of the screen. Office for iPad represents the distilled Office experience, poured into an iOS glass. Working with docs in Office for iPad is a far cray from editing in Office Mobile for iPhone. What makes Office for iPad so important, naturally, is that one can actually do something with the document, rather than hunt and peck at it, as one must in Office Mobile on a smartphone.Īccording to Michael Atalla, director of product management for Office, Office for iPad represents neither a “blown-up” Office Mobile for iPhone nor a stripped-down Office for Windows, but rather a custom version of Office designed expressly for the iPad. Each Office 365 subscription includes at least one tablet subscription, which covers Office for iPad. In a nice twist, you can connect both your personal OneDrive and OneDrive for Business accounts and connect to SharePoint as well. However, to create or edit documents, you must subscribe to Office 365: either Office 365 Home Premium ($9.99 per month), the upcoming Office 365 Personal ($6.99 per month), or one of several business options. And each is free to use to view documents that have been created elsewhere.īut Office 365 also includes a subscription to OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution, a central repository from which one can withdraw and store documents. ( OneNote for the iPad has been available since 2011, and Microsoft’s Lync, Skype, and Yammer are also available.) Users can download each, free of charge, from Apple’s iTunes on an iPad running iOS 7.0 or above. Microsoft’s Office for iPad is a collection of three apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Clean, bold, and easy to use: Microsoft Office for the iPad.

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