Need help with software for my tablet
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GamingGlen
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Which is why I bought a MS Surface Pro recently (like last week); still costs too much, but eh, I spent $800 on tires, what's another $800+ for fun stuff. I use Excel and Word a lot, and I'd rather have a computer than some braindead internet viewing device which I consider other brands and the MS Surface RT; the MS salesman didn't like me calling it braindead :smirk:.
Now I have to adjust my spreadsheets for a small screen.
Now I have to adjust my spreadsheets for a small screen.
Nothing (yet) that handles ODF directly, but there are several adequate solutions for MS Word .DOC and DOCX. If one of those would be satisfactory, the three that I have installed are Olive Office Premium, Kingsoft Office, and Picsel Smart Office.
Hi,
Hopefully not getting too offtrack from the OP, but speaking of Win 8 Surface, I have an ASUS Win8 RT Tablet and it handles MS Office stuff just fine (at least so far) for a fair bit less than the cost of Surface Variant. Unfortunately it can't handle alot of the other stuff that a Win 8 Surface tablet can though.
Hopefully not getting too offtrack from the OP, but speaking of Win 8 Surface, I have an ASUS Win8 RT Tablet and it handles MS Office stuff just fine (at least so far) for a fair bit less than the cost of Surface Variant. Unfortunately it can't handle alot of the other stuff that a Win 8 Surface tablet can though.
Andrea:
you should be able to put your ODF files into google drive, which then can be accessed as word files in Polaris Office, Smart Office, or MobiSystems' OfficePro, possibly in others. Note that you can then locally save the copy, reupload it later, and let Google due the conversion work.
Note also: features vary WIDELY between office suites.
Polaris, for example, supports multi-column, and extant styles, but doesn't allow adding new styles to a document. Smart Office doesn't. Mobi supports styles. But polaris won't save back to GoogleDocs...
you should be able to put your ODF files into google drive, which then can be accessed as word files in Polaris Office, Smart Office, or MobiSystems' OfficePro, possibly in others. Note that you can then locally save the copy, reupload it later, and let Google due the conversion work.
Note also: features vary WIDELY between office suites.
Polaris, for example, supports multi-column, and extant styles, but doesn't allow adding new styles to a document. Smart Office doesn't. Mobi supports styles. But polaris won't save back to GoogleDocs...
and if you have Office 365, there are ports (basically web portals I think) to access your files that way on Android & iOS. Plus you can use the web apps directly. Or at least that is my understanding.
I found a LibreOffice build for Android. I've not tested it yet myself....
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Android-ARM@24-Bytemark-Hosting/current/
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Android-ARM@24-Bytemark-Hosting/current/
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LibreOffice has been compiled for Android, but it's pretty much useless as it stands and I'm not seeing any significant developer effort going into it, even though daily builds are being offered.
LibreOffice on Android
So much OSS has been developed as hodge-podges of code using everyone's favorite languages/libraries/toolkits all lashed together into one product that migration to a more sparse environment more similar to what we had in the early 90s is a significant problem.
Part of why I stopped working on OSS projects many years ago. I got tired of having to install a new suite of tools to be part of a team every time a new developer signed on that wanted to use some other VCIW coding means on top of those already on the project. Then going into dependency hell because of it, and having yesterday's clean build become unusable.
Still, hopefully someone will nibble away at the build until enough of the I/O functions work (e.g., working with the on-screen keyboard and finger pokes rather than requiring an external physical mouse and keyboard) that others will jump in and help finish the job.
Personally, I've just gone over to using Google Drive for now, then grab the files from there to my Mac or PC when I'm working there. For some things I just work in Drive in a browser there, for others I just go through download/convert, edit, upload/convert. If nothing else I get an automatic versioning system through the old files on the PC and Mac (when I convert I append a date to the filename to keep each version's filename unique.)
LibreOffice on Android
So much OSS has been developed as hodge-podges of code using everyone's favorite languages/libraries/toolkits all lashed together into one product that migration to a more sparse environment more similar to what we had in the early 90s is a significant problem.
Part of why I stopped working on OSS projects many years ago. I got tired of having to install a new suite of tools to be part of a team every time a new developer signed on that wanted to use some other VCIW coding means on top of those already on the project. Then going into dependency hell because of it, and having yesterday's clean build become unusable.
Still, hopefully someone will nibble away at the build until enough of the I/O functions work (e.g., working with the on-screen keyboard and finger pokes rather than requiring an external physical mouse and keyboard) that others will jump in and help finish the job.
Personally, I've just gone over to using Google Drive for now, then grab the files from there to my Mac or PC when I'm working there. For some things I just work in Drive in a browser there, for others I just go through download/convert, edit, upload/convert. If nothing else I get an automatic versioning system through the old files on the PC and Mac (when I convert I append a date to the filename to keep each version's filename unique.)
