[Q] How functional is the included Office Suite?

[funnycreature]

I am a proud Xoom owner/user but when it comes to available office suites I feel very neglected. I started a thread over at the Xoom forum comparing some of the main features of three major (tablet optimized) office suites.

The official Asus Transformer website states that it will be shipped with the Polaris Suite. Has anyone tried it yet? I know it will be next to impossible to get the apk to run it on the Xoom so if anyone wants to add their experience on the Transformer? Here is the link to the PowerPoint presentation that I used to evaluate the compatibility.

Your help is really appreciated!

 

[logichoops]

it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.

 

[funnycreature]

it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.

Would you mind taking a screenshot for me?

 

[senab]

Screenshots:

http://db.tt/Ob5Memd
http://db.tt/GqUiZtH

Speed is very good

 

[logichoops]

^ beat me to it!

 

[cjwilber]

it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.

It has some functions that most other office apps don't have - insert table for example. Even better the table functionality is very feature rich meaning you can do things like merge cells.

I have had it crash on me, and when it did so, it lost all of the work I had done - it would be nice if they did a periodic save.

Speed in use is fine.

I'm comparing it to various paid for office apps I have had on the iPad, and it compares favourably so far.

 

[Kermode]

A question is, is it better than Google docs?

 

[funnycreature]

I posted a comparison between (for now Word and PowerPoint) Office Suites in the Xoom forum. Bottom line is that none of the currently available apps should be considered perfect. Hopefully the competition coming up with all the Honeycomb tablets will spark a flood of well-developed apps.

 

[lytnus]

I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!

 

[Magnesus]

I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!

I wonder if they open in Word. Such suite should have at least RTF. DOC/XLS are very bad choices especially since there are several very different versions of DOC/XLS formats out there.

 

[popophobia]

Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8

 

[funnycreature]

Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8

I checked out his other videos and it made me want to test drive the Transformer so badly. Even my wife who leans towards iProducts was pretty impressed by its options!

 

[cd419]

Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?

I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.

 

[davedontmind]

Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?

I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.

If you have the Google Docs app installed, then within Polaris you can click-and-hold on a locally saved file, choose Send -> Docs and it will pass it to the Docs app for uploading.

But that just adds it to your Google docs, and doesn't overwrite and previous doc of the same name.

 

[cd419]

Damn I was really hoping for decent google docs support. I use google docs alot and not having read write acces is a pain. Does anyone know if Docs to go or quick office has read wirte google docs support and have tried on the xformer?

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

 

[the_gunner]

Can you not use Google Docs via the web browser on the TF?

 

[cd419]

You can use the mobile docs site but it is very basic. The desktop site crashes the browser when I try to use it.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

 

[HughR]

I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise.

The way LibreOffice doesn't open my Polaris file is clearly an LO bug: it crashes trying to do a division by 0.

I'm not allowed to post a URL on this forum but I can tell you that it is bug 40686 in the freedesktop.org bugzilla.

 

[goodintentions]

Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.

 

[funnycreature]

This topic has long since evolved in my comparison thread (see sig)

Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.