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Microsoft has yet to unveil an iPad app containing mobile versions of all of the handy programs you use on your PC, but there’s still a way to access and work on Microsoft Office files on the go.
Quickoffice Pro HD is an app that lets you view, create and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on your iPad. You can access files through e-mail attachments, cloud-storage services like Dropbox and MobileMe or locally stored folders.
Within these files, you can edit the text, including the size and style of the font; adjust the formats of paragraphs and cells in spreadsheets; and rearrange sentences, spreadsheet columns and presentation slides, just as you would on your main computer.
Quickoffice even includes support for an external keyboard and predictive text. In addition, the app’s multi-edit toolbox allows you to make quick changes from a central menu. The app also lets you drag and drop files to move, copy, e-mail or delete them.
Within Word documents, you can see thumbnails of all of the pages in each document and jump to any one of them. The spreadsheet editor also contains features that make it easy to do calculations.
In the PowerPoint presentation editor, you can insert text boxes, shapes, images and other objects, and change the order in which they’re arranged. You can also view the presentation on an external monitor. Quickoffice even has a built-in virtual laser pointer to guide your presentation.
The app’s similarity to Microsoft Office should make users accustomed to those programs comfortable with Quickoffice as well.
But you shouldn’t get too comfortable: Some people have found that the app frequently crashes when you try to open complex files.
So perhaps Quickoffice is best suited for quick edits to simple files on the go. Save the heavy editing for when you’re back at your desk.
The app is available for $19.99, and Quickoffice also makes other mobile apps for the iPhone and Android-based phones.
hlewis@nypost.com
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