HI,
i have a new iPad for work. I have installed both the free word app and the Polaris office app. I am able to receive word attachments and view them, but it won't allow me to open them for editing in the apps. I hold on the attachment, but the option to open with the app is not there. It will also not allow me to choose to email newly created word documents from the iPad in Word or Polaris Office.
PLease help.
Thanks,
iPad Air
I was apple to edit a word document in IOS.
This will depend on what email client the user is using. Different email clients give different apps that they will open. [ Don't know the why. ]
I'm running 7.1.2.
I can edit a word document.
apple mail.
export
pick your app.
I picked open in QuickEdit
So with the "right" combination of an email client and "office" app, you will be able to edit.
I got the run-a-round with Open in Docs. It seemed to want to store in google drive. I got the option to save in Dropbox app. Some times you need to save to an intermediate app. No idea why some apps are displayed sometimes and not others.
R
He has downloaded an alternative app that can edit word documents. The problem, as he stated (I hold on the attachment, but the option to open with the app is not there) is that iOS has no reasonable local file management.
He wants to be able to do what any reasonable person would (and if rumors hold true will FINALLY be available in iOS 11). He wants to be able to click a file and select what app it will open in. He also would like to be able to open any file in any app as you can on a PC or Mac.
There is no reasonable excuse why you can't, as an example, email yourself a word document, save it to your local storage then open any app that has local file support, click "open file", navigate to your local storage and open said file.
Who are you addressing now, do you even know?. Replying to people without knowing who you are replying to makes your posts very untrustworthy, not worth my time replying to you, even though I know who I am replying to.
You have a nice day now.
Try putting the document in Dropbox.com
Did you create the documents? Any chance the documents are password protected? Read only?
Robert
I Don't have Drop box set up. I could do this, but dont know why it won't let me do it the normal way, as i have seen others do.
I Just created a test email from my laptop and emailed to myself, and it is not password protected.
Thanks for the help though.
I have installed both the free word app
The original free word app didn't support editing. Microsoft recently announce the free app would support limited editing. You need office 365 to do full editing.
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Free apps
Apple iWork
iWork by Apple -- free with newly purchased iPads
http://www.imore.com/how-get-all-iwork-apps-iphoto-and-imovie-free-eligible-ipho ne-or-ipad
iWork for iCloud Beta
https://www.apple.com/iwork-for-icloud/
Citrix ShareFile QuickEdit
"Is the simplest document-editing tool available for iOS devices. Open, view, create and edit Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® files — right from your iPod®, iPhone® or iPad®!" Was Office² HD.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id364361728?mt=8
Kingsoft Office
"Read, edit PowerPoint files, and read Word documents on your iPhone or iPad, Share it by cloud storage."
http://www.kingsoftstore.com/office-free-ios
Quickoffice
Quickoffice is an application available for iOS and Android tablets and phones that lets you view, create, and edit Microsoft Office, as well as view and annotate PDF files. Connect Google Drive to Quickoffice for cloud storage so that you can easily access and edit files from your tablet, phone, or computer and know that your files are always up-to-date
https://support.google.com/quickoffice/answer/2986862?hl=en&ref_topic=2986859
CloudOn
Client front end to a Microsoft Office running on a server
"CloudOn brings Microsoft Office® to your iPhone & iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive accounts." Free for a give number of documents.
Haha.... Welcome to Apples absurd, self serving ecosystems.
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Microsoft took the decision not to allow editing. It had nothing to do with Apple.
Why are you telling me?
Tell the person with the problem.
What? I didn't tell you anything. Certainly nothing that would b helpful to the OP.
You just addressed an entire post to me, it is 3 posts above this one, maybe you did not mean to address it to me, but you did. Everyone makes mistakes, some more than others.
Right. I did. It was a reply (intended for you) to the following post;
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Microsoft took the decision not to allow editing. It had nothing to do with Apple".
And it is in no way a reply.
But as you felt the need to deny making it at first why should I care.
It is a reply. It's addressing the fact that you misunderstand the nature of the OP's issue.
It's is an issue with iOS. Not with MS Word.
Troll?
LOL.. okay.
How do I edit word document attachments
