Got myself one of those fancy new retina display iPads for Christmas. I deserve it!
One thing I would love to be able to do is to sit on the couch in the morning and do my banking. But I do it old-school, with my budget In an Excel spreadsheet.
Is there an app that will let me open and modify my existing Excel spreadsheet and also share it with/update it on my main computer if I need to?
I assume I would also need some kind of cloud-based drop box style document storage account.
Clearly in the future I need to consider some kind of app like iBank or Quicken, But right now I want to stay old-school. If possible.
Any suggestions?
Managing a spreadsheet on a tablet is going to suck, I’d stick with your computer for Excel. If you are determined to do this, Apple’s Numbers can import and export Excel files, but there will be formatting losses. If you just want to view your Excel spreadsheets on your iPad, you could try GoogleDocs or Documents To Go, but neither will be ideal for editing and going back and forth between your tablet and computer.
There are plenty of money management apps if you’d like to join this century.
For a cloud based document storage solution that syncs with your computer, DropBox is perfect.
Wait a few months…microsoft is supposed to be coming out with Office for ios system in early 2013.
It looks like you’re trying to use Microsoft Office on a tablet.
Would you like help?
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Quick Office is an app that will read and write Office files.
CloudOn is a free app that will allow you to create and edit Excel,Word, and PowerPoint. It can then be saved in a Dropbox (another free app) file which can then be accessed from any other computer.
Documents To Go has an IOS version. It’s not going to be as nice as working on a real computer, but for quick edits it should be fine.
Keep the document in Dropbox or similar, and you can edit it either place.
Google Docs could also work; that works within a browser.
BTW, if you go with Dropbox (which I lurve), look in the thread in the Marketplace and pick up someone’s referral code (not mine, I’m maxed out). You’ll each get extra free space.
FYI - I love the concept of Quicken, and I use it heavily, but it’s annoying. They force upgrades every 3 years or you lose the automatic downloads feature. The newest version happens to have a cloud-based synching service so you can enter transactions on the go, but I haven’t tried it yet. Mint.com is owned by Intuit (Quicken) but I’ve found that to be less-than-optimal for my needs.
Thanks, all. I went with CloudOn and DropBox (MZ, I used a referral code from your thread- thanks!)
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Documents To Go appears to do the least damage to Word documents of any IOS word processing apps. That is, if you create a Word document in Word, transfer it to your iPad and edit it in D2G, and then open it up again in Word, it comes our pretty much intact. Other IOS word processors seem to mess up fonts, formatting, etc.