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So OneDrive offers you 30 GB of free storage compared to Apple’s 5 GB of free storage in iCloud Drive. Feature-wise, we thinkĭropbox is the better cloud storage solution overall. Signing up with OneDrive, and another 15 GB if you connect your Camera Roll to OneDrive (you can disconnect it later and keep the storage.) Dropbox offers 2GB of free storage, and currently offers 1TB for £7.99 per month. Where OneDrive has a distinct edge over iCloud Drive is its generous free storage amount. Both OneDrive and iCloud Drive place a corresponding folder on a Mac computer to access files, and files are synced and stored across devices. OneDrive always made more immediate sense to us than Apple’s Documents In The Cloud, but Apple’s new iCloud Drive system has brought the two systems together.

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Any files you place inside the OneDrive folder in Mac OS X are then synced,and can be accessed on the iPad using the OneDrive app, or an app supporting OneDrive (such as Microsoft Word). It’s a file syncing and sharing services with a primary installation in Mac OS X. OneDrive is essentially the same as Dropbox. Microsoft Word can store files locally inside the iOS app, but the main way you’ll use it is by connecting Word to Microsoft OneDrive or, Dropbox.ĭropbox support is new to Microsoft Word, and was something we called for in our previous review (along with many other Word users), so it’s good to see Microsoft listening to its customers. Word vs Pages: OneDrive / Dropbox vs iCloud Drive Read next: Pages for Mac tips | Pages for iPad & iPhone tips So if you don’t have a copy of Microsoft Office for you desktop, or laptop, then this deal is pretty good in the long run.

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It should be noted that with this you will get installation of Microsoft office programs for up to five Mac and PC computers (in this instance: Word 2011 for Mac and Word 2013 for Windows PC).

And with Office 365 you also get 60 minutes of Skype world calling per month, which is handy if you make calls overseas on a regular basis. You also get 1 terabyte of online storage space in OneDrive, which compares pretty favourably to the £7.99 per monthĭropBox charges for 1TB of data. Whether you need those features will dictate whether you have to pay the £5.99 for premium access, although it’s worth noting that you also get a copy of Office 365 Personal for your Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and so on).

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Microsoft Word unlocks the following Premium Features: You can still pay Microsoft £5.99 to use Microsoft Word, a charge that unlocks premium features. The great news is that Microsoft recently switched to a freemium model where you get the app for free, with a few extra features if you pay an additional fee. Microsoft Word free with premium features

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It involves re-thinking the way you do things. This is generally a pain for anybody who currently has a workflow that includes grouping items together in Folders. It’s kept isolated inside Pages apps (you can, share files, of course). One side effect of this is that you don’t store Pages documents inside a folder with other files, like images, charts, PDFs, text notes, and so on. Instead, they are stored locally in the app, and then synced to the cloud. Documents are not stored globally on the iPad (because iOS has no equivalent of the Finder). And now that it’s available on iPhone as well as iPad you don’t even need to own an iPad to use it.ĭocuments In The Cloud enables you to open the same document, using the same app, on different devices. If you spend a lot of time working with Word documents with other people then this app will prove to be invaluable. You can now join in with them on the iPad. But if you work in an office with people sharing Microsoft Office you’ll breathe a sigh of relief. For our money Pages creates better-looking documents, and Google Docs is a faster environment for collaboration.

If you work alone, or with forward-thinking people, then other options offer the same functionality for a better price. Much depends on your day-to-day working existence. Whether you really need Word on your iPad is yet another thing entirely. Whether it’s £5.99 per month good is, of course, another matter – we think the free version is enough for most people. Microsoft has done a superb job though, and Word for iPad is a very good recreation of the desktop app. Pages doesn’t import Word tables and charts correctly, Word costs £5.99 per month (or £59.99 per year) for premium.