In Excel for iPad, the tabs are Home, Insert, Formulas, Review, and View. In Excel 2011 for Mac, for instance, you’ll find tabs for Home, Layout, Tables, Charts, SmartArt, Formulas, Data, and Review. The iPad apps menu tabs correspond to the desktop Office programs’ menu tabs, at least partially.
For example, Word for iPad’s menu ribbon uses the color blue Excel, green and PowerPoint, that reddish-orange color, just as their desktop counterparts. Microsoft did a good job making desktop Office users feel at home in the iPad apps. A similar look and feel to desktop Office.Because iPad batteries last about 10 hours on a charge and the tablets are often lighter than laptops, this can be a compelling reason to use Office iPad apps. Though also acknowledging that the apps lack some features, Mashable noted: “Microsoft has done a more than admirable job of finding the middle ground between Office Suite familiarity and the iPad’s native, touch-and-gesture responsiveness.”įor small businesses, native Office apps on an iPad provide the flexibility to take an iPad instead of a laptop when you work on the go. Anyone who was expecting Office Lite or a rehash of the underwhelming Office for iPhone will be pleasantly surprised.” And although these iPad apps obviously can’t replicate every feature of the full desktop programs, they deliver an impressive subset of those features.
They look and act like their Office 2013 counterparts on Windows. ZDNet’s reviewer said: “These three apps are feature-rich, powerful tools for creating and editing Office documents.
“In fact, it’s a lot better.” Microsoft “built a software suite that takes advantage of the iPad’s extra screen real estate,” among other highlights. No, according to many reviewers the trio of Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the iPad “isn’t at all what we expected,” said Engadget. Microsoft’s native Office apps for iPad, long rumored, finally debuted in late March.
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