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Quickoffice Pro HD 5.0 for Android improves tablet experience (Review)

By | December 1, 2011, 3:48pm PST

Summary: The new Quickoffice Pro HD 5.0 provides a complete, feature-rich office suite for Android tablets.

In the past I included Quickoffice Pro application as one of five essential tools for an Android device. The developer has now released Quickoffice Pro HD for Android, specifically designed for high resolution Android 3.0+ tablets.

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I liked Quickoffice Pro HD for its simplicity, responsiveness, and ability to sync documents with several cloud services such as Google and Dropbox. However, there were some issues with missing formatting features.

Version 5.0 has made some major improvements. The formatting issues are gone; now you have proper margins, bullets and numbered lists, more fonts. There is better support for Office 2010 compressed ZIP format documents. Major improvements and editing capabilities have been made to all aspects of Quickoffice.

The list of cloud services has also been expanded. Now you can access documents synced with Google Docs, Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Catch, Egnyte, Huddle, SugarSync, and MobileMe. Also, you can now share documents via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Docstoc, Scribd, and Yammer.

More advanced file management within the application makes it easier to organize your files while working on them without having to switch to another application to do so. The file management works seamlessly with the cloud services as well as local storage.

These improvements, coupled with capabilities like an optional keyboard and mouse when needed, as well as HDMI output on a tablet, make it possible to travel and do business presentations without having to lug a laptop along with you.

The granddaddy of mobile office document handling, Dataviz Documents to Go, has been equalled–and in some cases surpassed–by this feature-rich, easy to use application. Quickoffice listened to their customers, and the quality of the product shows their efforts to meet customer needs.

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Scott Raymond has been a technologist and system administrator for over 25 years.

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I am the IT Manager for a high end audio and network systems integrator in northern Califronia. My wife works at Adobe Systems, Inc. Whenever I write an article that might involve Adobe or its products, I add a disclaimer at the top of the article to make sure she is not involved in any way. We have a small bit of stock with AT&T and no other major investments that would cause conflict.

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Scott Raymond

Scott Raymond has been a technologist and system administrator for over 25 years. Starting as a hobbyist in his teens, Scott quickly learned that he could translate his passion and knowledge into a full-time career. He currently works as the IT Manager for a high end audio and network systems integrator in northern California. He has written technology articles for various publications in the past and began contributing to ZDnet as a guest blogger on Jason Perlow's Tech Broiler. Scott and Jason met in New York in the 1990s where they co-managed the New York City Palm Pilot Users' Group.

In his spare time, Scott is a trained chef and avid bicycling enthusiast, as well as a voracious reader of historical, science and horror fiction. He is a huge fan of pop culture, with a wide range of interest in TV shows, movies and games.

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RE: Quickoffice Pro HD 5.0 for Android improves tablet experience (Review)
Scott Raymond 3rd Dec
@bsoplata I'll pass it on to my contact at Quickoffice and see if we can get an answer for you.
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ChrisMartinez 1st Dec
Can I trust this app? I own it, but resort to using Google Docs - with its poor UI - for fear of crashes. I could always save after every line or character, like GDocs does, but it's too cumbersome and I'm prone to forget when I get in the zone. What say you?
@ChrisMartinez The fact that it can acces your files on Google Docs should make it quite attractive for use with your tablet device. It is now my primary editor when I'm working with my tablet.
@Scott Raymond Yea, I do that when I use it... but it has also created errors when uploading and lost all my work. Can I trust it now? Does it work every time? It didn't when it first came out for Android Tablets, it didn't when it first came out for iPad too.
@ChrisMartinez Not sure why it would be causing those issues for you, but the product is much more mature now. I would recommend making copies of your documents, then give it a good shakedown. Repeat the tasks that caused you issues in the past and see if they've cleared up.

Also, don't be afraid to contact their support folks. They do listen to customers and fix bugs.
Let's have a proper review, please! This reads like something you'd say to the guy sitting next to you on the plane.
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bsoplata 3rd Dec
Well the old saying "FIX ONE THING BREAK ANOTHER HAS COME TRUE AGAIN"..... I can no longer open XLS & PDF attachments being sent via Outlook with Quickoffice nor QuickOffice Pro..... The worse part is cannot seam to get any kind of response of if or when it is going to be fixed..... Yes it worked when phone bought but broke after the update.....
@bsoplata I'll pass it on to my contact at Quickoffice and see if we can get an answer for you.

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