After trying and spending about $30 in apps, I found out that the best app depends on the complexity of your text format.
I had to work on a native Word +30 page doc with footnotes and comments, no graphics. In this case, CloudOn, a free app, turned out to be the best one.
- Pages does not handle footnotes nor comments.
- Office 2HD does not let you edit or add comments nor footnotes.
- QuickOffice does not handle footnotes but does a good job with comments and the navigation throughout the document is the smoothest of all apps.
- You can edit Google docs with the Drive app, but this only works for native Google Docs document; you will hit a wall trying to edit a native Word document stored on Drive.
Only CloudOn will let you create and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. The only flaw of CloudOn is the delay between uploading a document and being able to edit it. It took 15 minutes for my +30 pages document before it was made accessible on CloudOn. The layout is almost completely similar to Word on a desktop, so the learning curve is minimal. It would be useful to hear from teachers using also pictures in their document and see how CloudOn responds to the challenge.
Jude
I had to work on a native Word +30 page doc with footnotes and comments, no graphics. In this case, CloudOn, a free app, turned out to be the best one.
- Pages does not handle footnotes nor comments.
- Office 2HD does not let you edit or add comments nor footnotes.
- QuickOffice does not handle footnotes but does a good job with comments and the navigation throughout the document is the smoothest of all apps.
- You can edit Google docs with the Drive app, but this only works for native Google Docs document; you will hit a wall trying to edit a native Word document stored on Drive.
Only CloudOn will let you create and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. The only flaw of CloudOn is the delay between uploading a document and being able to edit it. It took 15 minutes for my +30 pages document before it was made accessible on CloudOn. The layout is almost completely similar to Word on a desktop, so the learning curve is minimal. It would be useful to hear from teachers using also pictures in their document and see how CloudOn responds to the challenge.
Jude
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