Office apps for ipad

[boydan]

Hi, im hoping someone on the forums has experience with the new office suite for the ipad.
The office 365 offers are confusing.
What does a user do who has Office 2013 (retail pack), whose outlook interacts with SBS (2008). Same user has a standalone onedrive account, with extra data, linked to SBS2008 email address.
To activate office on ipad, you need an Office 365 account - but this wont link to the existing onedrive nor the email address that is hosted on the SBS2008.

Any suggestions?

 

[Cassady]

Hi, im hoping someone on the forums has experience with the new office suite for the ipad.
The office 365 offers are confusing.
What does a user do who has Office 2013 (retail pack), whose outlook interacts with SBS (2008). Same user has a standalone onedrive account, with extra data, linked to SBS2008 email address.
To activate office on ipad, you need an Office 365 account - but this wont link to the existing onedrive nor the email address that is hosted on the SBS2008.

Any suggestions?

Ah - I have a similar(?) question. Also wondering to what extent, if at all, the Office 365 can speak to/sync with the standalone Office 2010 product, running on Windows 7 Enterprise....

 

[zippy]

The difference between Office 2013 and Office 365 is that Office 365 is rented and Office 2013 is bought outright. In terms of compatibility they are the same.

As far as Office 2010 is concerned, it will be mostly compatible, except that when you open a document created in Office 2013/Office 365 you might lose functionality when you save it. I don't know what the detailed differences would be.

And the Ipad Office365 account does link to an existing account. I bought Office 365 annual subs £79, for my Mac a month or 2 ago. Early this week I downloaded One Note, Excel and Word onto my ipad and just logged into my existing Office 365 account and my docs where accessible.