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What are the best office apps? (docs, spreadsheets, etc)
I am compiling a list of the best apps of each category, so leave your opinion and a quick reason to help out the community.
If the app costs $, be sure to say so!
I have not tested any but here are some good ones I've read about to get started.
Documents to go
Quick Office
Office Suite
Hopefully some of you guys have tried them all and know the best!
Docs to go seems best for me
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Docs to go seems best for me
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docs are pretty badass
Docs to go +1
I have docs to go and quick office and quick office is the only one that allows you to edit docs with headers in them.
+1 for Docs to go too.
The free app is useful, but if you want to edit them or create a new one, it'll cost you $15. But it's money well spent!
i have all the 3 . -
PROS -
office suite has better editing options and the only one that can open password protected docs .
Can insert images in documents.
Quick office - i mainly use it as a search tool.. fast search and opens files.
Documents to go.. i wasted my money.. really dissappointed ( coming from windows mobile ) . hopefully their updates in future will add more options.
I've tested Docs to Go and Quick Office. Docs to Go was the best but I find it isn't as good as WM Office Mobile for the moment.
There's also OliveOfficeEditor and OliveOfficeViewer. I can't say I really tested them. Just installed, didn't like and uninstalled within 5min.
Bump guys
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nobody mention thinkoffice yet?
it comes with my LG stock froyo, which i can edit.....but now i flash a custom rom without backup it.....from the market seems that i can only get lite version, which is only a viewer.
Polaris Office
The one that came with GSII, does any one have the working apk?? My room doesn't have it, and I kind of miss it for fast viewing docx files...
thanks in advance
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The one that came with GSII, does any one have the working apk?? My room doesn't have it, and I kind of miss it for fast viewing docx files...
thanks in advance
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I'm looking for the one that came on my cappy (at least, I think it did) but it's not on my rom. I'm using OliveOffice right now and it's okay, but if anyone has the apk for the cappy or SGSII and wouldn't mind sharing, it would be greatly appreciated.
diegoms89 said:
The one that came with GSII, does any one have the working apk?? My room doesn't have it, and I kind of miss it for fast viewing docx files...
thanks in advance
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I'm also using Polaris on my phone but when I looked in the market, it's not there.
Looking for a good office app for my tablet.
What about Kingsoft Office?
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Should check this thread out.. It's got the reviews you need..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13912670
Later we get LibreOffice for Mobil.
I would give a try.
Document to Go & quick office
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I love Smart Office from times when i was using Nokia phones.
Still love it on Android. Nice UI which i appreciate much. Dont know if other apps have more features. Smart office has enough features for me
https://market.android.com/details?...sImNvbS5waWNzZWwudGd2LmFwcC5zbWFydG9mZmljZSJd
I didn't try version 2 (which is on marker) yet. Only used vs 1.9.2.
/Well I used it to cheat in school with my Nokia 5800 Maybe that's why i like it so much
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Is it possible to get side-loaded PDFs to show up in Google Reader?
I have ezPDF Reader (free in Amazon Appstore a while ago) but it's not as clean a UI as Google Reader
For that matter can anyone get it to load side-loaded EPUB. As far as I can tell you cannot.
I use repligo for pdf.
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Doesn't Aldiko Book Reader do it ?
Maybe you misunderstand me. I'm not looking for an alternative - I already have ezPDF, which is fine - I'm looking to see if there's a way to get PDFs visible in the Google Books app.
I'm assuming not.
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Nope
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So the only way to get books into this is to actually *gasp* purchase them?
I was looking at a few books to purchase on there a bit ago.. wow... expensive... come on... lower the prices ... there is no need for them to be that much. lol
usafle said:
So the only way to get books into this is to actually *gasp* purchase them?
I was looking at a few books to purchase on there a bit ago.. wow... expensive... come on... lower the prices ... there is no need for them to be that much. lol
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That's not what bothers me. I have a number of tech PDFs that I'd like to use. Right now I'm using ezPDF, but it has it's issues. And I really like the bookshelf motif in Google Books.
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I was being sarcastic. I searched the whole T.F. directory tree last night looking for where they might store the .pdf and I couldn't find it either. Don't know where the files are actually kept?
I'd like to import some stuff in there as well because it just looks "cleaner"
Hi everyone, I want to buy this tablet very soon ~ any way, I'm interested in a feature that will determine whether to buy it or not
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Can I download a PDF books (about 1000 paper) and use s-pen to add notes and highlight things, then leave and go back and find all data I add there.
Repeat the question but put PowerPoint instead of PDF, thank you.
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saw man said:
Hi everyone, I want to buy this tablet very soon ~ any way, I'm interested in a feature that will determine whether to buy it or not
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Can I download a PDF books (about 1000 paper) and use s-pen to add notes and highlight things, then leave and go back and find all data I add there.
Repeat the question but put PowerPoint instead of PDF, thank you.
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For pdf, you can achieve this with ezpdf amongst others. For PowerPoint, you probably will have to convert to pdf before annotating.
But both can definitely be done.
saw man said:
Hi everyone, I want to buy this tablet very soon ~ any way, I'm interested in a feature that will determine whether to buy it or not
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Can I download a PDF books (about 1000 paper) and use s-pen to add notes and highlight things, then leave and go back and find all data I add there.
Repeat the question but put PowerPoint instead of PDF, thank you.
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This tablet would be invaluable for a student.
You mean that in a good way or in a bad way
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Buy it!
I am a student too. I bought the note just for school, but I use it now for watching movies, calls etc.
The best thing for me as student is the s note app. I take the pen and note just like a pepper book. It is amaizing. It is like u have just one book and everything u need is in there when u study for exams I love it for my use
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I am a student too. I bought the note just for school, but I use it now for watching movies, calls etc.
The best thing for me as student is the s note app. I take the pen and note just like a pepper book. It is amaizing. It is like u have just one book and everything u need is in there when u study for exams I love it for my use
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Here's what I use. Not a student anymore but wish I had this when I was.
Dropsync - Setup a dropbox account and buy and SD card and then use Dropsync to do a FULL sync of Dropbox to your tablet for your notes/PDF books, etc. Dropsync will also automatically upload any updated files.
ezPDF - Annotate PDF files.
Polaris - Annote office files. I have other office apps, but this is the best for annotating documents.
S-notes- I use S-notes how I would use scrap paper, short documents, small notes, ideas, brainstorming etc.
LectureNotes - This is what I use as a notebook - better note taking capabilities. If you set it to a dropsync folder it will also sync your files into Dropbox and you can view them as a PNG file if you look in that folder. Dev also mentioned they may be willing to add an automatic export to Evernote feature which would make this a killer handwritten note app.
Total app costs I think are <$10 and will be the best money you spend. Everyone will be jealous. Whenever I'm at a conference and sit next to someone with an iPad they want to know how I'm doing what I do on my tablet!
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You mean that in a good way or in a bad way
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Buy it, dude. There a ton of threads on this already. Do a search.
HasC said:
For pdf, you can achieve this with ezpdf amongst others. For PowerPoint, you probably will have to convert to pdf before annotating.
But both can definitely be done.
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Using Polaris office you can annotate powerpoint without converting to pdf.
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well im a also student, so here is my experience.
I primarily use repligoPDF to view my pdf (usually in ppt format which i then converted into pdf thru polaris office). so instead of printing out my slides then attend class to annotate, i can simply download and annotate there on my tablet.
As for regular note taking, i use LectureNote for general class note taking. This app is THE BEST for this tablet and waaaaay better then s note. You can choose different colors to write in and the pages scroll down instead of flipping like s note (which is so much easy to view). Not to mention there is also auto scrolling in which once you to write to a certain area on the bottom of the screen, the app automatically scrolls down for you. Dont have to flip a page anymore.
After all that, you can also download Dropbox and dropbox sync (which i recently discover) and EASILY sync your notes to dropbox and view it from ANYWHERE.
dropbox sync(paid version since free version only allow upload up to 5mb per doc) basically allows you to create 2 folders, one on your tablet and one on your dropbox, and the whenever there are changes made it automatically updates/uploads the changes to the cloud storage. That way, all your notes will be backup and assessable anywhere for additional reading or if you want to print it out (despite having a tablet and going green on printing out note for note taking, i still find using print-out version for studying for exams is more natural)
I havent play around with using word or excel, but from my previous TF700(with keyboard) experience, andriod arent really made for word or excel at the moment. you certainly can open up docs and excel files to edit, but i can assure you that it feels weird. You will prolly have better luck using a comp for that anyways since tablets are really ment for on-the-go-access(mostly viewing) without the bulkiness of a laptop and doesnt really replace a laptop.
Hope this helps!
I am a career guys whose married, have lovely wife + 2 kiddos. I am also a part time students, taking my MSc. in one of my local university. This is how im using my note 10.1 for my studying..multiscreen is rock!!
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IMHO Adobe PDF reader works fine! You can add comments, Text, freepainting. Highlight.
I use FolderSync to connect to my College Samba Server.
Btw. Is there a Way to screem record what you Do on a Android Tablet?
naimmkassim said:
I am a career guys whose married, have lovely wife + 2 kiddos. I am also a part time students, taking my MSc. in one of my local university. This is how im using my note 10.1 for my studying..multiscreen is rock!!
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Excellent example of possibilities. :good:
naimmkassim said:
I am a career guys whose married, have lovely wife + 2 kiddos. I am also a part time students, taking my MSc. in one of my local university. This is how im using my note 10.1 for my studying..multiscreen is rock!!
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Wow respect. You're actually doing it the way Samsung intended i ditched that snotes a long time ago due to... Well everything, i was skeptical in the beginning but after getting to know lecture notes =mind blown.
How can you write that well on the multi screen Window of s notes? Do you zoom in and out for each small bit?
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Wow respect. You're actually doing it the way Samsung intended i ditched that snotes a long time ago due to... Well everything, i was skeptical in the beginning but after getting to know lecture notes =mind blown.
How can you write that well on the multi screen Window of s notes? Do you zoom in and out for each small bit?
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Nop..no zoom in n out. I write it with the width is exactly fit.
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sysl0rd said:
Wow respect. You're actually doing it the way Samsung intended i ditched that snotes a long time ago due to... Well everything, i was skeptical in the beginning but after getting to know lecture notes =mind blown.
How can you write that well on the multi screen Window of s notes? Do you zoom in and out for each small bit?
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Can Lecture Notes work in multiscreen? Or are we hopeful we will get more available apps for multiscreen when we get Jellybean like we've seen in some of the Note 2 videos?
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Can Lecture Notes work in multiscreen? Or are we hopeful we will get more available apps for multiscreen when we get Jellybean like we've seen in some of the Note 2 videos?
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LectureNotes cannot be used in multiscreen.
toenail_flicker said:
LectureNotes cannot be used in multiscreen.
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Exacly..that d reason i hav to use S Note
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Exacly..that d reason i hav to use S Note
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More's the shame. LN is a fantastic app and beats the socks off of Snote. AFAIC the only real plus to SN is multiscreen. I quit using it day one.
Half the stuff I want to do is pretty basic.
So whats the closest app to paint or paint.net?
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Temetka said:
Half the stuff I want to do is pretty basic.
So whats the closest app to paint or paint.net?
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Didnt photo shop come on you tablet?
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Didnt photo shop come on you tablet?
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photoshop is a great app but the problem is that that for most basic users it does not have all the features or its very difficult to acess or too cumbersome
I use photo editor.. Good, fast and have plenty of features for quick edit
Other one i use is picsay pro photo editor which was free from amazon app store sometime ago...
There are many others too.. You can try a few and see what fits u the best .
I must have installed a 4 or 5 apps.
For jeebus sake I just want to select, copy, and paste in a new file. Takes me 3 clicks in XP. Ugh.
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It does not come any more basic then ps touch that came with the tablet.
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I guess im looking more for a drawing app than a full blown editor.
Lets say I have a pic of a cat and I want to doodle a top hat on its head. With PS Touch its buried under a whole bunch of crap. With paint, I just start doodling.
I'll just have to google around. Or bust out the SDK and code something but I have other projects im working on right now. Moving, work, etc.
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It does not come any more basic then ps touch that came with the tablet.
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I totally agree. Especially for the tasks mentioned by the OP.
Actually I use ps touch a lot more than desktop applications now, because it is so simple to use, and the s pen gives you better feeling and accuracy.
Get PhotoDesk... open a pic, click edit and start doodling,.... plus it's got a bunch of built clip art and stuff
I think it's exactly whst you're looking for... really easy and it organizes your photos really well too...
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I have PhotoDesk and its ok.
I think I'll try a few of the photoshop tutorials.
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try sketchbook x from autodesk. seems pretty good.
Just got my Note on clearance as WM is getting ready for the 2014 model. I plan to use it in Paramedic school for note taking etc.
Our teacher lets us download his PPs before class, and I'm looking for an app that will let me view the presenter's notes as well as edit them with my own. I've tried quite a few office apps and can't find what I'm looking for. Kingsoft will let me add a note of my own, which is nice, but I really need to be able to see and edit the teacher's notes.
I may already have the answer with Kingsoft or Polaris or Office Suite, but if so I ain't seeing it. Any body have some suggestions?
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Haven't had a chance to use it but the Quickoffice app in the Play Store is supposed to allow that.
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Yeah, I've tried that one too. If it's in there I can't figure out how to make it work.
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Office Suite Pro
I use Office Suite Pro on the Note 10.1, and love it. You can easily edit notes on a PowerPoint slide by dragging the "notes" bar up from the button of the screen. It's$15 for the full app and worth every penny.
Hope this helps,
Nate
I would post a link to the app, but don't have enough posts on xda...
I had just downloaded OfficeSuite Pro to give it a shot when your post popped up. It does exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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