You can get the Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for free on iPhone and iPad, and if you have iPad Pro you miss out on the functionality and have to subscribe to Office 365.. Microsoft offers free versions of the Office apps for devices under 10.1in - and now that all iPad Pros are bigger than 10.1in that means that iPad Pro owners need Office 365 order to do any more than read and print Office files. The issue is not necessarily the fact that people are required to pay to use the apps, except rather the fact that Microsoft moved to subscription model few years ago. Also, keep in mind that the Office bundles used to cost lot more than subscription price - the standard edition of Office 2008 for Mac cost £349.99 for example. With the Office 365 subscription you will unlock the functionality of iOS Office apps -. With Office 365 you get premium versions of the Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook - including advanced change tracking, the removal of limits on the ways you can use paragraph styles, and advanced chart, table, and picture formatting tools. If you need to use the Office apps for longer than month then you could choose to get Office 365 Personal subscription and cancel it when you no longer need it. or you can claim the refund and lose the apps editing abilities. Apple gives away it's own versions of the Office apps for free for Macs, iPads and iPhones.. You can open Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the app on iPad, iPhone or Mac and you can save them as their Office version if you need to send them to someone.
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