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How to edit documents on my SII.. step one - Open document
Step two - Edit Document.

..Quick office was pre-installed by either my carrier or Samsung. Sometime pre-installed apps aren't a bad thing.

Have yet to try QuickOffice - I know of it from Palm TX days, but not convinced its worth the price. Tried Documents to Go on my iPad and I found its layout/formatting frustrating. On the plus side, it does allow you to send multiple attachments in one email (Hello, Apple - please fix Mail). Apple's own products peeve me no end and are only able to sync to iCloud, so one additional step if communicating with anything not an iDevice.

I'm experimenting with the online CloudOn for full Office compatibility and Doc2 HD as a local WP - and both sync with DropBox, which is both PC and Mac friendly - while Doc2 HD also allows you to save to your iPad.

Not a specific version for tablet, but works fine on a tablet: Kingsoft Office is a great option for trying out an office suite, for free.
I had picked up a couple paid Office products thinking I'd make great use of them and haven't yet. So in case anyone is like me, I'd suggest trying Kingsoft first and I suspect few would ever need anything more.

Five more reasons not to use a tablet, all concisely illustrated by the pictures in this article:

1. Accident waiting to happen, you hold the tablet with one hand while standing, and press with the other. Balance lost, drop!

2. TOO MUCH SCREEN REAL ESTATE used up by the big ugly icons, like Youtube's now prison stipe black-and-white design. Can anyone spell G L A R E?

3. Social networking? And that contributes to profits, how?

4. Onscreen keyboard. Now this one grabbed me, at first. Thought of getting the Iconia Dual Screen.. until I saw how you type on it. No tactile response. That will be useful for the first 10 minutes, annoying afterwards.

5. TOO MUCH SCREEN REAL ESTATE used up by the formatting options and the ribbon. But at least it's not GLARE BLUE anymore, as has been typical of MS and other apps.

Tablets should never quit their day jobs. Gimme a netbook with good WiFi, instead.

ronB2, on 01 June 2012 - 10:45 AM, said:

How many merge fields will Kingsoft accept per document, and will it 'read' a range in a wk1 spreadsheet with column header titles which match the document fields? That's my big question with Kingsoft. Am in the market for any office suite which can do this. So far, none I've tested can do this: not LibreOffice, OpenOffice, any MS product (though claiming to do it), WordPerfect in any version (though claiming to do it). Have just ordered Lotus SmartSuite from Amazon, after trying to get a straight answer from an IBM rep who didn't even know that SmarSuite version 9.8.2 only allows spreadsheets as read-only. That effectively robs the program of its utility, since you can't edit. So maybe earlier versions of SmartSuite will work. All Windows Lotus programs are inferior to the DOS version, and all Excel and Libre/Open office programs are inferior; Lotus Symphony can't read wk1 files. So nix to all of them.

Hope Kingsoft will fill in the gap. If so, it's worth at least $600 per license. And in case you thought wk1 was dead, just google on wk1 compatibility, and notice that the EPA and the Rice Industry use it. In my private practice, I know accountants and lawyers who still use it .. on DOS. Because, the Windows spreadsheets can't crunch iterations and date manipulation calculations (i.e., for pension vesting, eligibility, years of service) like the old DOS versions 2.x of Lotus. Oh, and the audit trail with Funk Software's Worksheet Utilities is dang near perfect. Great, when you want to prove something to IRS.

So there's a big market here in the US, and a bigger one outside the US, which still prefers Word 2002 and prior. THAT software can read/write wk1, calculate what you program in DOS, even if you can't create the formulas as easily, in its native Windows format.

This post has been edited by brainout: 22 August 2012 - 10:17 PM