In PowerPoint, I already mentioned that it has a ton of themes and custom slides that fit with those themes. It also has a keyboard made specifically for formulas, giving you a calculator-like number pad so you can enter formulas quickly. Under each 'tab' you'll find a list of features you can use, and more menus you can open by tapping their feature headings.Įxcel lets you create and edit spreadsheets with all the features your used to including charts, graphs, tables, PivotTables, sparklines, and several other methods to present your data. On the iPhone, by changing the tabs in the dropdown, all the tools you found in the top ribbon on the iPad are now within thumbs reach at the bottom. You get all the same tools, but you access them by touching the paintbrush tool at the top, then selecting those same tab headings from a dropdown menu. In the case of Word, you get familiar desktop tabs including Home, Insert, Layout, Review and View, each with several tools that display at the top depending on which tab you have open.

On the iPad, Microsoft uses the larger screen to its advantage, giving you a Ribbon (known to desktop Office users) and tabs for switching between the particular app's main functions. Across the bottom of the screen there are buttons to access your account and connect to your OneDrive or Dropbox, create a new document, look at recent documents, or open a shared document folder on OneDrive, your iPhone, another Dropbox folder or a Sharepoint site URL.Īfter you have opened a document, you may notice that the iPad and iPhone differ on interface layout.

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