Thread: New PC or iPad?
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Old 08-23-2011, 08:51 AM   #14
Marin
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RE: New PC or iPad?

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Can one get an MS Word processor app? Or, load MS Word onto an iPad? Do they have USB ports or CD drives?

No.* At least not with the iPad 1.* The iPad uses Apple's word processing program "Pages."* The good news is that Pages can "read" a Word document and visa versa.* So in my case (I write with Word, too) I would convert my book manuscript, or at least the chapter I was working on, into a Pages document on my MacBook and then load it onto the iPad so I could work on it.* Then when I was back home again I would transfer the Pages document back to my laptop and convert/pull it back into the Word manuscript document.

So far as I know the iPad 2 is the same.* I'm hoping that the iPad 3 will accomdate MS Word but if it doesn't the conversion process described above works fine.
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