I have a surface pro 3
How do you use the surface pro 3 as real time whiteboard sharing
I want to draw something on my screen an allow someone else from a different device to see it and add to it
How do I do this?
OneNote comes preinstalled and is the easiest way I know of.
OneNote supports collaborative viewing? That's... new, though not impossible. Are you sure you understood the request correctly?
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hey guys;
pretty much as per the title really. I have an aging Acer aspire one 8GB SSD netbook running ubuntu and it has been great for working on while being light and portable. I would really like to move to a tablet but i have to be able to work on the device and not just carry a lightweight media device (which most tablets seem to be at first sight).
I need to be able to work on office (both MS and OO) documents as well as create them from scratch. I have had limited success finding a decent MS office app for my android HD2 and was wondering if the same is true on tablets.
Thanks for any advice you can offer;
Andy
it comes with Polaris Office suite which allows those things.
geekyhawkes said:
I need to be able to work on office (both MS and OO) documents as well as create them from scratch. I have had limited success finding a decent MS office app for my android HD2 and was wondering if the same is true on tablets.
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It looks like right now it is. I didn't find any app that can edit OpenOffice (LibreOffice) documents (I don't have the tablet, I was just looking at market.android.com). PolarisOffice edits Ms Office docs but someone reported that the docs it saves doesn't open in OOo. And there are reports that GoogleDocs doesn't work properly too.
To be fair I would wait until Honeycomb problems and glitches have been ironed out by Google. Two reviewers (Android Central & Anandtech) have mentioned that their Transformer crashed during a write up in Polaris Office and because the software doesn't have auto-save feature (yet) they lost 500-1000 words. Now if you are regularly saving your documents then it might not be a big deal but certainly I wouldn't say it is a "stable" replacement just yet. I hope more manufacturers take pointers from ASUS and bring similar tablets with keyboard docks with trackpad integration.
I just hope there are regular updates for both the OS and from ASUS to sort these problems out. The camera video recording glitch seems quite significant and also the lag with HD video playback. These are all software issues (I hope) and should be sorted out in time.
I wouldn't say Polaris office is suitable for work, and Google docs is indeed unusable. So I would say stick to the netbook, for now anyway.
Thanks for the info guys, kind of as i suspected (sadly). I guess give the market a few months to settle down and hopefully someone will port OO (or libre) to android 3 and we will be away!
Although it does slightly make me wonder why the tablet market is so hyped at the moment with so many quality smartfones and most tablets offering little more than the same but larger (at least from a work perspective).
Thanks again
Yes, it's quite disappointing. It looks like every way you would want to use the tablet (no matter - iPad or Android one) there is a problem that makes it much less useful. I'll buy one anyway because am a programmer and want to write apps for Android tablets but I think I will have to write quite a few for myself first.
I think it all depends on your industry. If you're a Data Warehouse developer, then the software is limited to the operating system it was designed for and there is no way around it.
But if you're writing your first book, NO PROBLEM!
If you create spreadsheets for your bookkeeping business, NO PROBLEM. You will probably still need a computer to format the print layout and set headers/footers, etc, and print. How about printing to PDF?
It would be nice if ASUS designed a dual layout platform leveraging it's current Android environment where at a click of a button, the layout changes to a point and click system (using the dock) reflecting a Windows-like appearance. Like a Play/Work theme.
WOW, I just thought of that! Hire me, ASUS, and lets get this developed!
Hey everyone,
I was looking to buying a netbook, but this awesome tablet got me.
The first use will be for me university work: notes, powerpoints, excels.. you know.. that sort of boring student stuff.
So how does the tablet cope with .docx, graphs and powerpoint?
Especially, how good is the compatibility with graphs in excel?
What app do you use? Quickoffice? or the one already installed?
Also I would like to hear some feedback about the keyboard: I'm coming from the awesome one of the VAIO FW. How does it compare to a normal good notebook's keyboard ?
by the way I'm planning to buy the 16GB model + keyboard.
thank you
google docs not ok by you? (Don't mean that in a condescending way, but I think it works pretty well, and it works on android).
EDIT: With what I just said in mind, I have only used google docs for writing papers and doing spread sheets minus graphs. Graphing works but for some reason (maybe just preference, maybe there was a good reason) I kept going to openoffice for the graphs. Haven't tried presentations. However I would assume that google docs is not as powerful MS Office, it is compatible though, but I wouldn't feel right relying on it (google docs) for school stuff beyond the basics.
If you want to write some simple documents or presentations with some pictures and texts, the build-in polaris office is more than capable.. and the keyboard dock works surprisingly well..so you ain't going to miss the VAIO. Also, just tried creating some bar/line/pie chart in polaris office spreadsheet.. no problems at all.. no fancy 3D though..
also you won't find any advanced features like automatic reference in Word, animations/sequence in powerpoint or powerful statistics functions/pivot tables in Excel.
for university work, I won't worry about that too much...Polaris Office is a great office suite and I'm very impressed...
best if you go to your local store and try it out yourself..before you make the decision
Polaris does a better job not blowing up formatting than google docs ime. Of course that only matters if you are continuing on from a previous doc. Shockingly it opened my resume (relatively heavily formatted) just fine.
Presentations are going to be something I can't comment on!
Thank you for the answers.
I found this extremely useful thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13993341#post13993341
which compares the different Office Suites for Android
It might also be useful to know that 'Citrix Receiver' works well on the tablet. My uni allows students to login with citrix and use the programs of the campus. Simply put, I can kind of run any possible program (as long as I'm online that is).
Possible the place where you will go studying has something like citrix?
Powerpoint Animations
Hi to all,
Has anyone found an app that will run PPT presentations just as they would run on a PC? I'd love to be able to run my prezos with all animations...
Thanks much!
husker71 said:
Hi to all,
Has anyone found an app that will run PPT presentations just as they would run on a PC? I'd love to be able to run my prezos with all animations...
Thanks much!
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+1 for this..
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App
Don't think that you'll find any software for Android. Android is primary for gaming, not working.
But Excel and Word sheets work quite good with Polaris Office (pre-installed), I haven't tried PPT yet.
It all depends on what you plan on doing. Simple word processing, presentation, or spread sheet would be OK. In Excel for instance if you use macro's you will run into problems. I know that Polaris could read some of my files.
To be honest there are people on here that claim to have replaced their laptop with the Transformer but frankly I don't see how. It is fine for internet, email, & entertainment. It isn't going to replace a laptop that you use for work or school in my view anyway.
Polaris Office work pretty well and is included with the TF (can't beat fee functional software). Just don't expect it to be as functional and easy to use as a real PC.
Honestly if I where using it MS Office apps for school, I'd stick to a laptop. You'll be a lot less frustrated that way. TF would be fine simple office type task or edits in a pinch, but I wouldn't want it to be my main Office device.
Lets not forget tablets aren't true laptop replacements, they don't have that kind of power.
Hello, I recently got the Transformer Prime and am soon looking to get the dock. I am a Computer Engineering major and was surprised how many apps there are that allow me to use my tablet instead of my computer except for VERY specialized applications.
For example, I can program C/C++, run and compile, but cannot do anything with file manipulation as I do not know where the compiled file(.out?) is stored. I can also run MATLAB code on my tablet, even scripts. With all of these niche applications filled there is really only one thing missing before I can truly feel comfortable leaving my laptop at home most of the time: A decent word processor! By decent I mean supporting semi-advanced features such as page breaks, tables, drawings, and most of all, EQUATIONS. I cannot for the life of me find an app that allows the viewing (let alone editing) of .doc or .odt files with equations in them. In the place of the equations are nothing, not even an ugly attempt, NOTHING.
Does anyone know a solution to this? I am *Almost* hoping for microsoft to release a version of their Office Suite for android, unless someone else can do it sooner!
I am slightly handicapped, very difficult to use left hand for typing. My job requires me to be on the computer all day. I am wondering if there is any way to use my 10.1 and it's S-pen (or any tablet with a pen) to be able to write on the tablet and use programs like Outlook, word and excel?
If this question should be asked in a different forum, someone please let me know.
Thanks
IIRC, the tablets can't be connected to a PC just to share their touch screen or any other input method.
(With the exception of it's camera)
To accomplish what you want you would have to run specialized software on both your PC and tablet, eg connect from your tablet to the PC using remote desktop software.
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I believe there are some apps in the play store that will do this. You need to run a corresponding server application on the Windows machine for this to work.
It might be worth a try if you already have the equipment and don't want to spend any more money. However, I suspect you're not going to get a very satisfactory experience going this route.
Windows 7 does have some native support for pen/stylus input, including handwriting recognition. Windows 8 is probably even better for this, although whether the desktop pen support is enhanced I'm not sure. In any case, I think you'd probably be better served getting a dedicated tablet for Window, i.e. a Wacom tablet or something similar. Wacom makes some very expensive tablets (Cinteq (sp?) and Intuos) for pro designers/artists but they also have more reasonably priced consumer tablets (the Bamboo line) which should be adequate for your purposes and these will have very mature Windows drivers.
I'd also suggest, however, that you do a little research on dedicated one-handed typing hardware. I know there are one-handed keyboards which are essentially the same as a standard qwerty keyboard cut in half and you would hold down a button with your thumb that would switch between the native key or the key in the mirror position. If you happen to know touch typing this type of keyboard is probably not hard to learn and may be your best bet. If you're not already a touch typist you should also research other types of "chording" keyboards which use combinations of buttons or switches to specify input characters. There are a variety of these and several are designed for one handed use.
Many thanks for the info. I got the Microsoft android remote desktop connection app from the play store to try it out before posting this thread. I am just dense enough to not be able to figure out how to set up the RDC on my home pc. Wanted to see if it would work before approaching the it guys at work.
I wondered if the Surface tablet would do better with the office suite. Something tells me there could be a real need for something like this to work if someone could figure it out.
I'll look into the keyboard option again (I think I did once before).
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I believe there are some apps in the play store that will do this. You need to run a corresponding server application on the Windows machine for this to work.
It might be worth a try if you already have the equipment and don't want to spend any more money. However, I suspect you're not going to get a very satisfactory experience going this route.
Windows 7 does have some native support for pen/stylus input, including handwriting recognition. Windows 8 is probably even better for this, although whether the desktop pen support is enhanced I'm not sure. In any case, I think you'd probably be better served getting a dedicated tablet for Window, i.e. a Wacom tablet or something similar. Wacom makes some very expensive tablets (Cinteq (sp?) and Intuos) for pro designers/artists but they also have more reasonably priced consumer tablets (the Bamboo line) which should be adequate for your purposes and these will have very mature Windows drivers.
I'd also suggest, however, that you do a little research on dedicated one-handed typing hardware. I know there are one-handed keyboards which are essentially the same as a standard qwerty keyboard cut in half and you would hold down a button with your thumb that would switch between the native key or the key in the mirror position. If you happen to know touch typing this type of keyboard is probably not hard to learn and may be your best bet. If you're not already a touch typist you should also research other types of "chording" keyboards which use combinations of buttons or switches to specify input characters. There are a variety of these and several are designed for one handed use.
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I've been using 'SideSync' for a bit now, allowing me to mirror and use my S8+ on my laptop (see attached pic). Using multi windows I can even carry out rudimentary multi tasking.
It struck me that on a basic level, this is not too dissimilar to 'Dex'.
I'm not a developer, so I may be talking pure rubbish, but would it be possible to 'Frankenstein' the two programs?
Quite clearly, the 'Dex' dock isn't needed to connect to the laptop and within 'SideSync' the functionality to use mouse and keyboard already exists, the missing element here is the 'Dex' desktop.
My hope is that the desktop functionality can be integrated to the 'SideSync' app. Doubtful that it's as simple as I've laid out, but I have great faith in the talented boys and girls here.
Anyone?