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iWork for iPad updated with Excel and PowerPoint export support

By | September 22, 2010, 9:41pm PDT

Summary: Apple updated the iWork suite to include support for exporting Numbers and Keynote documents into Excel and PowerPoint. The iWork suite is now much more useful for Office users.

I wrote a comparative article on iPad Office apps back in June and while I thoroughly enjoy using the iWork suite, the lack of ability to export Numbers and Keynote into Excel and PowerPoint kept me from using it as my primary Office suite. I just read over on TiPb that the three apps in the iWord suite for the iPad have all been updated with Numbers and Keynote adding in the ability to export to Excel and PowerPoint.

As you can see in the TiPb post there are a large number of new features, updates, and fixes in each of the applications and I just finished updating my iPad apps to try out more this week. With these updated apps and a Bluetooth keyboard you really can get work done on the go with an iPad.

In addition to the new exporting support, some other updates that appeal to me are the improvements in font, size and color settings for individual Numbers cells, ability to group and ungroup objects, and improved creation and editing of hyperlinks.

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Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle.

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Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases most of his devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “keeper” or “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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RE: iWork for iPad updated with Excel and PowerPoint export support
bravokingz 26th Sep 2010
great to read, one of the great office application on mobile, thanks to technology

www.a2zmobiles.com

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bravokingz
This is indeed good news, however if u need to "run" the real MS Office you can still do so by using a RDP client and thinserver

http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm
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Interestingly enough...
trickytom3 23rd Sep 2010
You know what else has excellent Excel and Powerpoint support? ....Excel and Powerpoint!
@trickytom3 Unless you're trying to open a PowerPoint 2003/7/10 file on your Mac. If it has video or animation, you're screwed.
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Do they integrate with dropbox?
MSFT_Eagle 23rd Sep 2010
Do they integrate with dropbox?
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And what about . . .
JLHenry 23rd Sep 2010
Google Docs support? I'd much rather up and download to there than have to set up an ADDITIONAL space for on-line files.
great to read, one of the great office application on mobile, thanks to technology

www.a2zmobiles.com

regards
bravokingz

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