But the document is also retained, or cached, on the device, so if you go to access it in an offline situation-such as on an airplane-it is still available.
When you open an Office document in Word, Excel or PowerPoint for iPad, you open it from the cloud, make your changes (if any) and then save it again. (With OneDrive for Business, that is only true if you've configured the OneDrive for Business client for Windows to sync the document library that contains that document.)ĭespite being designed to work on a mobile device with correspondingly less storage than a typical PC, Office for iPad works similarly. When you open a OneDrive-based document in Office 2013, that document is synced to the local PC and will be made available offline. If you're familiar with Office 2013 for Windows, you know that this version of Office integrates seamlessly with your OneDrive- (Office 365 Home Premium and, soon, Office 365 Personal) and OneDrive for Business-based (Office 365 versions for businesses) document libraries. For example: How Office for iPad deals with local (on-device) documents. And since I approach these new mobile apps with such a subscription, I'm free to move on to other, more pressing issues. This differentiation is understandable to me, however, and I'm honestly surprised by how much Microsoft lets you do without an Office 365 subscription. That's because one of the many Office for iPad features you can't access without such a subscription is the ability to create and edit documents that exist only on the device. Tied to this, of course, is a strange subset of users who seemed miffed-if not outraged-that Microsoft has the temerity of tie so many Office for iPad features to an Office 365 subscription.
OneNote doesn't work with documents, but as you open notebooks in that app, the contents of those notebooks are synced to the device for offline use. Note: By "documents" I'm referring to Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, not just Word documents.
But if you're used to how Office works on Windows, you may be surprised to discover how similar Office for iPad is when it comes to differentiating between documents in the cloud and documents on the device. In general, people seem genuinely impressed by the quality and feature-richness of these new apps. It's been interesting poring over the feedback I've seen for Office for iPad so far.
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