Is there any way to edit docs in Google Docs online? I can only view my documents, but I can not edit them.
I haven't found a way to edit the documents using the onscreen keyboard.
The solutions that I have used thus far are:
1) use an external keyboard. You can edit, and you have the entire display to view the document, but you obviously sacrifice portability.
2) use the mobile version of google docs at m.google.com (you may need to switch your browser agent to some mobile client). You can edit using the onscreen keyboard, but you sacrifice a lot of the collaboration features.
So neither is particularly ideal. If someone has found a better way that preserves the onscreen keyboard and collaboration, please chime in.
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I am looking for an office software like Google Docs. that syncs automatically over the web. But Allows to either to create from template on the phone. Or to open as a copy, or to save as a copy.
My company is shifting from paper based workorders to digital. And we are using Android as our base. since all our current technicians have Android phones.
Google Docs is perfect however it doesn't allow creation from templates or to save as copies leaving the original black.
Are there any programs that do this?
So I finally got printing all worked out on my captivate. I have a wireless printer and really want to leave the laptop on the desk and use my phone for everything. The one major problem has been printing. Finally, here's an answer...
To Print from your Captivate, it will cost you about $4.50 (or limit yourself to 3 docs a month.)
General Printing - test this first
Get PrintBot from the market (free version to test out - supposed to cover 2700 wireless printers)
Open it and setup your printer. My settings are...
Network Connection : Protocol - Auto Printer - choose your own
Printer : Re-select your printer
And print a test page. If this works, you are in business
Printing an Excel or Word Document:
Printbot is great for pictures and pdfs, but it doesn't print office docs, so those that your coworker emailed you just sit there So here's the great workaround.
First make sure you install these two programs:
From the market, find and install google documents, open it and sign in. Make sure you can use this on your cappy.
From the market, find "My Docs - Google Docs" (by RCS, LLC), install it and sign in.
Now you are about ready! Don't give up hope to soon!
You must upload your file to Google Docs, but for some odd reason it doesn't allow you to upload xls into it (unless I'm and idiot and can't find the upload button). But "My Docs" allows this. So open up My docs, click upload, and choose your file. It will be uploaded to your google docs account. You can close mydocs, it has served it's purpose.
Open your google documents (called "Docs" in the app drawer), find the file you uploaded (don't need to open it), from the arrow on the right side - open the pull down menu and click "SEND", choose "PrintBot" from the menu and your doc should start to print. Whew! Lots of steps, but it's done and printed. Caution! Watchout for multipage excel files, it will print each and every worksheet.
And Finally Printing Email from Gmail:
For some crazy reason, none of these programs interface easily. So you are in your gmail app and want to print off your free redbox rental code or some password you keep forgetting. Leave the email alone and open up your browser (yep, back to the www).
Go to the online version of mobile gmail. Sign in and open the email you want to print (I set up a shortcut on my homescreen). On the right side of the email, open the pulldown menu (double down arrows) and click "Print". This will open up google cloud print. You should have an option to "save to google docs" where it converts your email to a pdf and stores it in google docs. Then click "PRINT", it will create a pdf document of your email. you can close the www, or just surf around for a while...
Now back to google documents on you phone, find the pdf, click the menu on the right, click send and send it to Printbot. It will print your pdf.
And that's the whole 99 steps to printing documents with your captivate. OO) Actually it works pretty quick as long as you use your home wifi. I tested it with excel, word, and gmail files.
Good luck - Will
Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.
thanks
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mrhaley30705 said:
Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.
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That would work for photos, but I wanted emails, excel, word too. Plus Cypria is epson printers. But I'm sure it works great for most uses.
Sorry about the epson part. Wasn't thinking about everyone else.
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.
mrhaley30705 said:
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.
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That looks like it would work better, and has the with the ability to choose which pages to print. A bit more expensive, but probably worth it of you printed a fair number of pages.
It was free in Amazon app market a while back. Maybe the will do it again.
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So I like it so far, but when I have no clue how to access the google docs with this app that was preinstalled in my tablet. The only option its giving me is box.net sync.
How do I get it to do Google Docs?
You're not alone.
It seems many people have had problems with only being able to add a box.net account instead of Google Docs and box.net. The problem seems to exist only with certain builds of Polaris Office, because both options are available to some users. I'm not sure if the most recent versions have dropped support for Google Docs or if this is just a bug that exists in some builds that many of us ended up with.
I haven't found a real solution for the missing Polaris feature, but you could:
- Download the Google Docs app.
- Access your docs using the Google Docs app.
- Long press on one of your documents and use the "Open With" option to open the file with Polaris Office.
- Edit/save your files using Polaris.
- Then use the Send menu option in Polaris and select "Docs" (Google Docs).
- You'll be given the option to upload the file to your Google Docs account with or without conversion to Google Docs formats.
- You should see a notification of whether the upload completed successfully or not.
- Go back to the Google Docs app and you should see your updated file listed.
I hope that helps.
k_t_b said:
You're not alone.
It seems many people have had problems with only being able to add a box.net account instead of Google Docs and box.net. The problem seems to exist only with certain builds of Polaris Office, because both options are available to some users. I'm not sure if the most recent versions have dropped support for Google Docs or if this is just a bug that exists in some builds that many of us ended up with.
I haven't found a real solution for the missing Polaris feature, but you could:
- Download the Google Docs app.
- Access your docs using the Google Docs app.
- Long press on one of your documents and use the "Open With" option to open the file with Polaris Office.
- Edit/save your files using Polaris.
- Then use the Send menu option in Polaris and select "Docs" (Google Docs).
- You'll be given the option to upload the file to your Google Docs account with or without conversion to Google Docs formats.
- You should see a notification of whether the upload completed successfully or not.
- Go back to the Google Docs app and you should see your updated file listed.
I hope that helps.
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Much appreciated! I guess I'll have to go the alternate route. What a shame. I feel that this is either a bug or a development choice by Samsung. I really like this tablet, but they are making it hard for me to choose their products again.
Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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I think you should be able to do this with Polaris Office however it does not work very well. There are two other options, either you convert the document into a pdf and use a PDF annotator such as ezpdf or there is a new app called textmaker which allows you to mark up text like MS Word but the app is expensive although there is a free trial availableon their website at the following link:
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofa_en.htm
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Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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My favorite app for Office files is OfficePro6.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...3lzdGVtcy5lZGl0b3Iub2ZmaWNlX3JlZ2lzdGVyZWQiXQ..
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Is there a way to mark upi a word document with the spen? I would like to be able to review documents and put editing marks and notes on the page using the spen and then save my notes and email back to the orginiator
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Here are some notes I made on using Polaris for ink notations:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856691
I haven't found another office product that allows ink annotations either. I did install MobileNoter SE HD recently. Its an unofficial OneNote app for Android that has tons more functionality than the official OneNote app, including ink annotations that will be captured and synced back to OneNote on a PC. Here is a link to that, but FYI its $15 (but worth it if you are a heavy OneNoter).
http://www.mobilenoter.com/Home/Features_HD
JC
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
tonyz3 said:
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
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Nice. Thanks.
tonyz3 said:
I think I remember some one mentioning sonnr scribble app. For annotations on office documents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble
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Thanks for the link. I checked it out. The functionality looks good, but the implementation for me is a deal-breaker. From the description of the app:
" The documents you want to annotate and share are securely stored in your Soonr Personal account in the cloud so you must be connected to the internet to access them."
So you have to store your docs on their cloud server to annotate and access them, and there is no off-line caching of those docs. Sounds like the functionality is just a gimmick to get people using their cloud services.
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Thanks for the link. I checked it out. The functionality looks good, but the implementation for me is a deal-breaker. From the description of the app:
" The documents you want to annotate and share are securely stored in your Soonr Personal account in the cloud so you must be connected to the internet to access them."
So you have to store your docs on their cloud server to annotate and access them, and there is no off-line caching of those docs. Sounds like the functionality is just a gimmick to get people using their cloud services.
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Not to be rude like our "VP"........ but you are in correct. You can offline cache either in office formats or the pdf(annotated format)
When you have a doc on your screen you can either back arrow to save it as annotated to the cloud account. or if while it is on the screen you can hit the upper rt corner menu and down load which will cache it. What i have noticed is the down load did not seem to work if you are just in the soonr menu and long press a file to download it that way without it on the screen open. For me it must be open on the screen and DL from upper rt menu to cache.
I DL'd this app this morning to try it so i have not played alot with it but this is what i know so far. Seems pretty good though.
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...while it is on the screen you can hit the upper rt corner menu and down load which will cache it...
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Many thanks for the further insights. If you do download/cache it, can you open it in the sonnr app without an active internet connection to truly work with it offline? Or is the downloaded version "read only," still requiring an active connection to their cloud to make further annotations on the cloud copy?
I love the idea of the app, except if I have to be tethered to their cloud to use it.
JC
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Many thanks for the further insights. If you do download/cache it, can you open it in the sonnr app without an active internet connection to truly work with it offline? Or is the downloaded version "read only," still requiring an active connection to their cloud to make further annotations on the cloud copy?
I love the idea of the app, except if I have to be tethered to their cloud to use it.
JC
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yes it will work in their app, let you work on it and when you are done place it in a pending upload state until you are back on wifi. than it will update in the cloud. Still trying to work out everything- will take another look at it over the weekend.
I've been trying to work on a web application for job-seekers to track job applications. What I'm wondering is whether users would probably prefer to have the information layed out vertically or wouldn't mind needing to swipe a spreadsheet horizontally to see and work with all the information. My aim is to create something similar to the Excel spreadsheet templates available on the internet, add features that you cannot get just using an office suite, such as reminders.