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[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] klau1:
It's probably a place holder for updates, for devices with it installed by the OEM
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Tim_Warren:
Softmaker apps rule!

I was desperately looking for office apps which are at least quite as good as desktop pc versions. I tested a lot of them (all which are mentioned in your comparison but Picsel, plus a few others). Result: most of them have problems opening my Microsoft Office files (some don't open password prtected files, some don't open the new -x formats properly, several destroy formatting), all of them do not have enough features for a satisfactory workflow. Then I tested TextMaker, the word processor by German developer SoftMaker, and finally my search was over. It opens all of my doc(x) files, no matter if these are pw protected or 70mb in size, formatting is exactly the same as in the original, no loss, and it offers a broad functionality, track changes, comments, all true type fonts supported, very good on-the-fly spell checker, footnotes, endnotes, pdf export, conversion to other file formats, etc., it`s the first word processor I can really use for work and not just as a better file viewer with a few simple editing options as all the others. I bought PlanMaker and Presentations too, same here: By far the best spreadsheet and presentation app, ideal interoperability, all important features as used on my desktop pc. I recommend the SoftMaker apps to everyone who's looking for serious office applications.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
HOLY CRAP!!!

thanks for that bro..

the Entire SoftMaker Office Suite 2012 Mobile for Android looks like exactly what I want...

the comparison looks awesome! http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofacomp_en.htm

but WOW.. nice price tag.. 3 times more than any other one.. but WELL WORTH IT, if it does all it says it can.. AND its licensed for 3 devices, so that really makes it $10 each if you have 3 family members to share it with

AND it has a 30-day trial.. I'm trying that out for sure..

also comes for Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile & Windows CE..

GREAT FIND BRO!!:good:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
Well, i'm very impressed with Softmaker thus far

It rendered a complex Docx with images ,bullets, etc, and converted it to PDF to view in Acrobat perfectly...

pptx also exported nicely to PDF

It viewed every xlsx, pptx & docx perfectly, with images, graphs, & tables.. it inserts tables, and has pretty much most desktop Office functions, as far as i can tell..

besides being about perfect, i'd like the following things added:

1. It has bullets but its missing Indents & Tab functions.. and using HackersKeyboard's Tab button doesnt indent the bullet.. neither does using Full Keyboard's tab

2. It lacks the pinch zoom function, and you need to manually set zoom, and 30% is the smallest..

3. It might be better if the keyboard was automatic, instead of mapped to a keyboard button.. but i suppose its better than having the keyboard pop up when you were just browsing the document..

4. It might also be better if the toolbar icons had longpress bubbles saying what they are or what they do. its kind of hard to tell what they all do at first..

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Also, I dont know why this thread is in Eee Pad Transformer & apps..

it should be in General Android or something..
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
OK, actually, Long Press on the Icons does tell me what its for

AND, going to menu > Format > Increase Indent does bump the bullets in.. so that works.. just not as easily as I think it might be.. [EDIT] ok I CAN add an Increase Indent button to the toolbar

It would be cool if the Bullets altered from Solid to Hollow

it would be useful if deceasing or increasing the "Tabs" distance, also applied to the bullet jump distance

I like that we can select default save format as Docx & create default templates

and I like the Rulers & Pagebreaks

and I like that we can customize the toolbars with our own commands

and I totally love the SD Card Fonts folder

and i do appreciate the Find & Replace feature a lot..Case Sensitive, Whole Word Only.. great...

It would be just about perfect if we could use Wildcards

AND I dont see Macros.. the ability to record a simple macro is very important, i feel.. and its the biggest thing lacking from the Suite, apart from the Wildcards. especially since at least one other Android Office Suite claims it can supposedly Record Macros.

they dont even need to be hardware button macros, simple touchscreen / Command / Input macros would be enough
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
OK. it actually DOES have Pinch to zoom function.. so.. that just leaves Macro & Wildcards I'm missing / hoping for
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Pinedat:
Can we arrange a user's vote?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
Sure, I can add the vote option but I have to admit that I will not update this thread for a while since I'm too busy... there have been a lot of updates and changes that are not reflected in my reviews.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] afr33s:
What about AndrOpen Office? A full open office port available free from okay store!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] klau1:
Just checked out AndrOpenOffice.

Functionality wise, This looks amazing.

I think it will demolish current native Android competitors.

In Native apps, Too many functionalities have been sacrificed for Android GUI design principles.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
are you saying its just a straight OpenOffice Port? from OpenOffice.org?

can you compare functionality? I dont use OpenOffice at all.. Does the Android have Macros, Wildcard Replace, and PDF Export?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] afr33s:
Try it yourself. It's free! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
doubtful

SoftMaker OfficeMaker is pretty awesome..

if Open Office had advanced functions like Recording Macros & Running VBA Scripts, and Advanced Wildcard Find & Replace Functionality, I'm sure there wouldnt be a "best of" list, and thats all anyone would use.

Of all the ones I have already tried, SoftMaker OfficeMaker is by far the one with the highest Fidelity Input & Output, It's a true Office App which creates, opens, saves and exports exactly like Microsoft Office does.

So unless Open Office has Macros & Wildcards, I dont really have a reason to go testing everything out

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[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] klau1:
AndroOpenOffice is relatively new, so it might very well become the best in terms of functionality.

But things of high functionality are rarely popular due to the proportiojally higher learning curve.

AndroOpenOffice does support macros.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] pacha32:
Working off-line or locally

Hello world,

I'm new to this site and please forgive my (nearly ?) broken english as I'm an oldddd man from Belgium ;). This comparison job is of great value, very useful and I thank its author for his very high quality job and also all other contributors.

One point I couldn't clearly find in the charts is about he ability to work "off-line" or locally. I know it's not in the current trend for "always-Internet-connected-people" and I'm in no way a kind of paranoiac person. But in some case, we need to be on our own ressources.

Actually, I'm working on a house renovation project in the field where I have no access to free Wifi, as I use them at home or with city free Wifi spots. My mobile subscription is a very low cost one with a 10 MB limit (yes!) and I can't pay for overload in Internet traffic. But on my project, I don't need to connect to some cloud storage : definitely no need to access external resources. I just want to look at and edit my project XLS and DOC files, view my .JPG and .PDF files stored on my smartphone (standard Android 4.2.2) and in case of edit, to save them to my local storage, internal memory or SD card.

Some of the listed

packages like Polaris don't work at all if not permanently connected to the Internet

. Others allow you to

save and retrieve files only from their proprietary storage areas or from the cloud services

. And it could be that some such services keep a copy of passwords (if nothing else even more sensible) in their data files. And what can happen if these services just DIE, like any human being or activities ? Not to forget M. Assanje and NSA "affairs"...

I've read in some posts above a similar interest, but nothing applicable as from now, August 2014 and in Belgium (i.e. not the USA). Any suggestion welcome...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] chinarabbit:
Anyone who doesn't have a need to be offline has never had a great idea.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] pacha32:
WPS Office, Kingston

Installed and could use it very easily, even if less powerful than MS OFFICE PRO 2010 on my Win 8.1 PC. Compatibility is good, enough for me. Also OK when off-line and for PDF viewing (even if difficult to read on my WIKO Iggy 4,5" screen).

Evaluated other suite

s :

OneSoftMob : Calculator or spreadsheet ? Free but not possible to save work.

OfficeSuite Viewer 7 : just a viewer !

SoftMaker Office : looks good but 19,99 € for the 3 DOC/XLS/PPT apps. First looking at free apps !

Eliminated

All apps that require a membership and allow only storage on cloud services :

Microsoft Office Mobile : Office 365 subscription and cloud storage only, to my experience.

GoogleSheets event if offline possible with proper configuration of Chrome browser, but Google storage is totally unavoidable as it syncs as soon as connected ; no way to prevent it. And file formats differ when working offline or online. Too much cons.

Or apps that do not allow to work locally :

Polaris Office 5.1.2

My first post as it was in french, and now completed above. Seems I forgot this is an English speaking Forum :confused:

Installé et utilisé avec plaisir, même si c'est évidemment moins puissant que MS OFFICE PRO 2010 sur mon PC Win 8.1. Mais la compatibilité me semble suffisante. Fonctionne très bien hors connection. Permet de bien visionner des PDF, même si sur mon Wiko IGGY de 4,5", il faut de bons yeux ou de bonnes lunettes, si pas une loupe.

Rien à redire pour cette application, hautement recommandable.

PS. : au départ, sujet orienté vers le TF101. Aujourd'hui, je pense qu'il aurait vocation à être plus universel. Encore une fois, du très bon travail.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] AidanSonoda:
Source Files …

I know the OP hasn't updated since early 2013 (huge thanks to funnycreature for over 2 years of great updates!), but I was curious, beginning my shopping for android office softs for my new S5, about how much has changed in the last year or so. On the off chance funnycreature still watches this thread, is there any chance of getting the last version of the source files? That is the desktop MSOffice files you were using for testing. I'd love to see how current versions compare to the last tested ones rendering the same files.

Sadly, I don't have the spare cash to test all of these suites, by I do already own Docs to Go / OfficeSuite Pro 7 & Polaris is now free. I'm curious how well AndrOpen renders native MS formats too.

There seems to be a terrible dearth of real testing/comparison of mobile office compatibility - this thread (old as it is) is still a top 5 google search result. Heck, it is the most informative of those top 5 as well (excepting that we can't know how much has changed since 2/2013).
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
Hey there,

I apologize for not updating this thread any longer. I wasn't even aware that it would show up in Google search! I guess I have a number of excuses, mainly that I have no more spare time and the other that I gave up on trying to be productive on my Android tab.

That said, I found myself using Office suites on my Galaxy Note II every now and then when I want to quickly review files that someone sent me. I can highly recommend using WPS (formerly Kingsoft Office) which is FREE! Alternatively I used the SoftMaker apps but they're pricey IMO. I also have/had AndrOpen installed but can't comment on its functionality much since I uninstalled it quickly (that must mean it didn't perform that well back then...)

Anyway, if you PM me your email address I'd be more than happy to share the files that I used for evaluation!

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] AidanSonoda:
Nothing at all to apologize for, I'm glad you did all the work on this to start with. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll certainly try out WPS.

FWIW I tried AndrOpen this spring on my EvoLTE, but it was unusable on the 4.7" 720p screen … a pity since I use LibreOffice for all my office needs and have a lot of styles & macros made up. Trying it out again on my new S5 and finding it pretty great. On par, in limited trials, with OfficeSuite Pro (both of which have a lot of nested menus). Not as polished (some dialogues load with confirmation buttons off screen and the like), but useable, particularly if you are familiar enough with OpenOffice to know your way around. PDF export and support for TTF fonts on SDcard are huge pluses for me. Cheap too, less than $2 for pro version - happy to support the dev in any case.

I'll mention that it isn't very fast or battery friendly. I guess that has something to do with needing to run it's own instance of Xserver, etc. I guess performance is pretty bad if it bogs down on an 801, but any newish phone should be ok - for me, the performance issues are more of a minor bother than a hindrance to productivity.

PM sent. Thanks again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Ceger:
What about OfficeSuite Pro? Have you had a chance to look at that?

Ceger
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
No I have not. Just took a brief look at the reviews and they do not sound encouraging. I also would recommend waiting for an office suite that is specifically designed to take advantage of the tablet screen real estate and processing power. Everything else will be a compromise to begin with.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jbburwell:
Spell check?

:confused: Do any of the suites offer a way to check the spelling? Or is there some stand-alone spell checker that can be added? Having grown up on word processors and even email clients with spelling correctors this is one feature I can not do without.

And thank you for the hard work!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] danguyf:
My only complaint with Polaris is that, when working with Google Docs, I have to download docs, then re-upload them to Google Docs and delete the original after editing.

Are there any for which that isn't the case, where I can download a doc to a temporary location and then save it back to Google Docs without any intermediary steps.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] VoXHTC:
QuickOffice HD Pro is the best by far for Google Docs and it sucks..
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sonydesouza:
Very interesting and useful thread !

Thanks a lot ;)

Cheers !!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Anndy:
Indeed extremely useful!

Thank you very much for all the updates.

Cheers !!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
Everything is relative ;)

Has anyone tried the Microsoft online office suite? I recently had a quick look and was impressed! It's available for free at http://office.live.com all you need is a Windows live account and you'll even get 25GB of free "SkyDrive" space.

Sent with transforming Android technology
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwhit21:
Has anyone found a great solution/app for form filling/editing in PDF documents?

Thanks guys/gals!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] david279:
Good question?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
No, not really. The only app that I know of is basic (PDF fill and sign).
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] dude2k5:
try qpdf, works pretty nicely.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jhanford:
Any thoughts on OneNote-type options

Any thoughts on OneNote-type options - Or is MobileNoter our only option?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Yep....only mobile noter...and I didn't find that to be particularly good for me.

I wish that SOMEBODY would make a Onenote clone for android!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
Picsel SmartOffice got updated!

Picsel SmartOffice has been update to version 1.7.0. The improvements look good and I hope to update the changes soon!

For now the Google Docs and DropBox integration appear to be the most important improvements. The website lists the following changes:

This looks exciting! If nothing else, kudos to the developers to keep working on and improving their Android apps!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Techronico:
You can now add MS Office 2010 to the comparison. See sig.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] drkmtr:
Many thanks for taking the time to develop such a useful post. Greatly appreciated. Hope you will have the time to add updates from time-to-time.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] brunes:
Just use Firefox mobile and go to docs.google.com, it works perfectly.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] W4LLY:
So, this is a silly question, but the only problem I have with Polaris is copying and pasting text that I wrote and pasting it into say an e-mail.

Do any of the other apps allow you to do that? I really just use my Transformer for writing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ijinesh:
Hi

Good work. Can I have pdf file of your study? Can't view entire think in my browser.

Thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
What exactly do you need? The individual Word/Excel/PowerPoint files or the screenshots?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] FlagshipX:
I tried this and it didn't work. The keyboard dock that is.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] thosor:
Hello there,

there is a new app in the making from softmaker.com .

Currently it is closed beta(4), but with a mail you can participate.

Currently it is really slow and there is an force close when using the keyboard (yes.. the keyboard :-) ).

But this office could have much potential because it has more functions and can edit and show office2010-documents correctly.

Maybe it could be included in this comparison in the future?!?

More information: softmaker.com/english/blog
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
Sure thing! I am always willing to test new promising Office suites! I actually have one that I still need to put in here but I simply can't find the time for it :(

Could you send me a PM with the email address that I can send my interest for (beta) testing to?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
FIFTH Office app added

All,

I am happy to announce that I finally got around to uploading at least the screenshots for a fifth Office App, ThinkFree Office. It looks great but has many shortcomings, just like all the other apps. *sigh* Hopefully, I will find more time to complete the overview/direct comparison tables soon as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GoRRaN:
One question to all

I have a table with more than 100.000 lines...

I have tried polaris, documents to go and office hd with no luck... all of them say no memory to open table..

What do u suggest? Please answer this...it is very important to me this excel table
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
I am not an expert on this but my suspicion is that most of these suites are based on apps developed for mobile phones with slow processors and low memory. Most likely they were not designed to handle large amounts of data as I could see with my test Excel file (which is far from being big but contains lot of different styles etc.).

Sorry I can't help you more!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] tixed:
Great comparsion. Can't find one thing though: styles.

Not just 'bold', 'italic' or 'underline' - but true styles like in Word or Google Doc - Header 1, Header 2, Plain Text, etc. They're templates with adjusted font size, type and paragraph align, so I can switch them very fast from the list - don't need to set all this things every time I have to type another header in.

Any of these apps have that ability? Or maybe some other has?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
I wouldn't get my hope up too much. Although styles are (I guess) nothing else but definitions in the XML header, you might be asking for too much. You will be lucky if a document with different styles is displayed properly but something like the Office 2007/2010 Ribbon I haven't found yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] tixed:
No, I don't mean the whole Ribbon from office, only the ability to select text style. It was there a lot earlier than 2007/2010 versions.

Sorry, I'm not a native english speaker :) The part which I'm talking about is on the image from wikipedia. Just to be sure. Ofc, it doesn't has to be in exactly the same shape.

If there's no such feature present in any android office app - well, snap.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
No, it was my bad. Of course, styles have been round for a while but you will notice that most office apps for Android try to use some kind of combination of ribbon and the out-dated drop-down menus. I have only individual text formatting options (bold, underline etc.) but nothing that is close to styles.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] tixed:
Okay then. You're watching all new office apps as I understand, so I'm looking forward to see styles at last in any of the new apps :) Like the beta one person mentioned earlier... Maybe that'll be a good idea to suggest, because app is still in development. This ability would truly outstand it from the crowd.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
I'm not really watching anything. I'm merely keeping an eye out if there finally is an office app that allows being productive :D

So far I am beginning to think that the tablet is only for entertainment and not even close to being a substitute for a laptop. I'll keep searching though!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] lemmyslender:
Do any of the office suites handle Excel conditional formatting?

ie in a column with ten numbers, I want to highlight (fill) the cell with the lowest number green. In the case of multiple lowest numbers, highlight the cell yellow.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GoRRaN:
Totally agree with you..

when i bought my tablet i expected more apps for business :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
When you look at the screenshots for the Excel comparison there is a part that shows conditional formatting. It is actually supported but I couldn't tell you to what extent!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] lemmyslender:
Thanks, I see that now. I've tried it in a couple of the office suites, don't know if I had the latest updates though.

Perhaps it's not my conditional formatting, but the formula I'm using for it:

=IF(F5=MIN(F$5:F$24),IF(COUNTIF(F$5:F$24,MIN(F$5:F$24))=1,TRUE,IF(D5=MIN(D$5:D$24),IF(COUNTIF(D$5:D$24,MIN(D$5:D$24))=1,TRUE,FALSE),FALSE)),FALSE)

is used to format the cell green in the instance of a single lowest number. It also checks a second column used to decide "ties" in the case of multiple lowest numbers.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] funnycreature:
I assume your conditional formatting looks for 'TRUE' or 'FALSE' then? If you tell me what exactly you want to do I might be able to help you determine whether it's your formula or the app's inability to evaluate the formula or cond'l formatting.