can you use ms Word documents
1609666
Everything seems to be app based. You would need a Word app. There is an office type app on there, but frustrating in some ways. I wouldn't buy it, money would be better spent on a real tablet or laptop. This is so limited and we did not have good experience. Within one month the connection to power source was messed up and it would not charge. We contacted WolVol and they were great. Replaced the entire unit, no hassles. But the new one has the same problem. It will only charge if we duct tape the cord in a certain position. We gave up on it and bought a laptop.
1845418
I am not sure. I had an issue and had to wipe everything off and start over. I purchased office, so I would have word. I know word was not included.
622510
A more recent version of OpenOffice might work better. Not sure whether ASUS's repositories offer a more up to date version, though. While OO does a good job dealing with word and powerpoint files in general, compatibility won't be 100%. The word and powerpoint formats are proprietary and closed, OO's ability to read/write those formats is based on guess and reverse engineering. That said, you could try the following workaround: upload the document to docs.google.com (apply for a google account if you don't have one yet) and work the forms online. You can download them back to your computer when finished. Another alternative is to use a "windows emulator" such as Crossover to run MS office under Linux.
1712604
Not exactly. To use MS Office you must activate it (read, pay for it) then it will complete installation and then you can use it.
1788025
No. Due to the operating system, you cannot put microsoft office on it. google's response to this was "google drive" which is essentially microsoft office free online.
174442
Try "openoffice.org". It's free and is supposedly compatible with MSOffice.
1725116
Yes it does. To access microsoft word, you must click the icon on the top right corner to open the applications menu and then click on Documents to Go. This app contains Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Microsoft Excel. Click on the cross icon you see on the screen and once you're asked what type of new document to work on, click on Microsoft Word.
1332250
you can download an app called Google Docs which seems to work like word, but it will not allow you to run Microsoft products such as office
2157372
Do you mean MS Office? No. Though it has Wordpad, Notepad, a calculator etc.
149738
Its opened word docs for me such as resumes from MS word, but I never used it 4 anything else. And I never revised a wors doc on it, but I'm sure it can.
1981693
Yes you will be able to view them, but will need a word processing such as MS Word or Apple Pages to edit the documents.
1080444
Microsoft Word is not included. I am testing Openoffice as it is a free suite of office applications.
58802
Full list here. Short answer = no. You know you can get something like Open Office for free and edit word files all you want... http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03541370&tmp_track_link=ot_faqs/top_issues/en_us/c03541370/loc:4&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5296985
487279
Any Linux-based machine (including this one) can open/use MS Office files by using the free-for-download OpenOffice suite (OpenOffice.org). In other words, you can use MS Office files by using that program.
810488
Yes, I use this computer for those things and it does them very well. This computer doesn't come with Word, so you'll have to install that if you have the disc or buy it. Or you can download a free program like Word and install that once you have your computer connected to the internet. (I like Apache OpenOffice suite because their Writer program works like Word, but it's free.)
2106102
Absolutely. I use it to pull in people's Word docs (95-2009) all the time easily. The only issues you'll ever face are if a document has extreme levels of graphs/images/styling/outlining - sometimes those items don't convert perfectly. Most people don't create documents for which that's ever been a problem for me or anyone else in our company, though.
809460
No, this has it's own version of word, excel and power point that is compatible with the ms versions. Actually works quite nicely. I've downloaded ms stuff and used it, haven't uploaded to my pc and used with ms programs yet Good luck :}