It’s a beautiful and powerful machine with a 12.9” edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display with ProMotion, True Tone, and P3 wide color. Moving forward, the iPad Pro, like other iOS devices, also offers amazing performance-related specifications. First off, with an M2 chip that powers its performance, you will never have to worry about Excel (or any other apps for that matter) freezing up. Add the fact that you can use it with the Apple Pencil stylus and a detachable magnetic keyboard that you can use for a great typing experience. Even if this tablet doesn’t have a micro SD card slot, it still offers a storage space of up to 2 TB, which makes installing Microsoft Office apps and doing work-related tasks a breeze.
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iPad models with a screen size of less than 10.1” can access a restricted set of App features, including creation and editing of documents, for free. For iPad devices with a screen larger than 10.1”, the MS App’s require an active Microsoft 365 Subscription. If you don’t have an active O365 subscription, functionality is limited to opening and reviewing existing documents. In summary, MS Productivity Apps for iPad (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint) offer limited functionality without an Office 365 Subscription – but only for devices with a screen size of 10.1” or less.
Devices with larger screens only permit you to view (but not create or edit) an existing document.
How Well Do Microsoft Apps Work on an iPad in 2022?
When Steve Ballmer was still CEO of Redmond’s largest company, almost no Microsoft software would run on iOS. Happily for consumers, Redmond’s largest company changed course shortly after Satya Nadella took the helm in 2013.
Upon its launch, Microsoft Office for iOS was the most popular download in the App Store. The question for people considering making an iPad their only computer, then, is no longer whether Microsoft productivity apps are available for it.
The short answer is Microsoft apps for iPad are likely good enough for you. I would say that they are even more enjoyable to use than the full-fledged Windows versions because they support touch input better. Because search is a fundamental feature that works perfectly on Apple Mail, I have switched to that. On a PC, opening a OneDrive folder in File Explorer takes as long as doing so in a web browser. Workaround from my friend Adam: when creating a Shortcut, use the Share instead of Save function.
Workaround: copy and paste a table of contents from an existing Word file. Pasting text from Safari often results in bad formattings, like increasingly narrower columns after lists. For example, it lacks Reading Mode, screen capturing of an entire web page, the ability to open websites like an app, and Microsoft Editor (an extension like Grammarly).
Remote Desktop for iOS works amazingly with Windows machines. I have not used the iPad versions of Powerpoint, Teams, Planner, Whiteboard, Sharepoint, Lens, Lists, Math Solver, Power BI, Xbox, Visio, Power Automate, Start, Translator, Bing Search, Bookings, Stream, Yammer, Defender, Dynamics, and Swiftkey.
Nor have I played Microsoft’s games, such as Mahjong, Soduku, Solitaire, and Wordament.
Excel for iPad review: The best spreadsheet app for the iPad
The program loads quickly, contains more of Excel’s core functionality than I would have expected, and the transition from keyboard/mouse to full touch interface has been handled very nicely. For a company with a history of not doing well with touch (i.e. Office apps on Surface in Windows 8), the interface in Excel for iPad is surprisingly well thought out.
The window features six small buttons across the top of the screen, along with five words that are actually tabs on the yes-there’s-a-ribbon. Excel for iPad’s interface takes up relatively minimal screen room, and is easy to work with even with large bumbling fingers. Ironically, Excel for iPad can’t actually create cell notes, so the Review ribbon is only used to browse through the existing comments. The numeric keyboard, which combines mathematical symbols and numbers on one panel, greatly speeds entry of formulas.
However, the image browser is restricted to photos stored on the iOS device; you can’t access any media files on your OneDrive, for example. The help system is relatively complete, including a comparison table that shows what you can do in each version of Excel (iOS, OS X, Windows), along with a touch guide that explains how to interact with your data.
By default, Excel for iPad constantly saves your work—so if you’re working on a mission-critical workbook, you’ll want to duplicate it first, just in case you do something bad. While the app itself is free to use (as a spreadsheet viewer), to actually edit workbooks, you need an Office 365 subscription, which will set you back $100 per year. If you’re not a heavy spreadsheet user, and you’re perfectly happy using Office 2008 on your Mac, then you might view $100 per year as outrageously expensive. The touch UI is well thought out, and support for the full set of functions from the desktop apps means you can work on even complicated workbooks while away from your computer.
The main downside for casual users is the $100 per year price, which is expensive for those who don’t often need the full power of Excel on their iOS devices. For serious users, the $100 per year cost probably isn’t an issue, because of the number of machines and devices it covers, and the fact that it insures they’ll always get the latest and greatest version of the desktop and iOS apps.
You Can Run Microsoft Excel On An iPad. Here’s How
While you can download Excel from the Apple App Store for free, you will need an active Microsoft 365 subscription to create and edit spreadsheets. As with any app that has been re-tooled for use on a tablet, you should expect some minor loss in functionality with Excel as it compares to laptop and desktop-based versions.
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