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Name: Office2 HD
iPadWordProcessing.com Rank: #8 with 63 customer satisfaction points
Cost: $7.99 - Download Office 2 From App Store
Twitter: @bytesquared
Website: Byte Squared
Who should use this app?: The app is ideal for those who need to edit Word documents while preserving the original format.
Cool Feature: Track Changes and low, low pricing.

Office Squared overview as written by Jason Murphey on October 15, 2012.

The Bytesquared Office² HD (or Office Squared) iPad application lays claim to providing full-featured office productivity functionality for one of the lowest prices when compared with other iPad productivity apps. And, despite the low cost, the app is a first class native iOS word processor.

This inexpensive app allows the user to view, edit and create Microsoft Word documents.

The Office Squared tool set features a styling tool including font family, font size, bold, italic, underline, color and text highlighting. The app also allows its users to format paragraphs through indentation and alignment settings.

The user may use the app to insert stylistic elements including tables, images and shapes. These items can float which means they do not have to be confined inside of columns (they can straddle multiple columns) and contain spacing to place padding between the element and the text. The text will automatically flow around the element and its padding. The elements are easily sized and re-sized by the user and flow specs control how the text flows in relation to the image.

A ruler bar at the top of the user interface established tabs and tabs stop. These are manipulated by sliding elements under the ruler which establish the parameters for the tabs. This may remind older users of the functionality provided by the traditional typewriter. Only it is much more fun to set tabs on an iPad.

Other features include auto-correct, word count, a footnotes feature and search by term functionality. The app is one of the few to provide change tracking. The track changes features allows an editor to highlight changes for subsequent viewers.

The app provides its users with the ability to export the document to Adobe PDF format.

The low price of the app provides its best selling point. Another somewhat unique feature allows the writer to revert his document back to a point in the past not to exceed the past ten saves of the document.

When the app upgraded to version 5 it added several new innovative tools that make it stand out from some of the other iPad word processor.

For instance, Office Squared now includes a section break formatting tool. The user applies the section break and then can style the text inside of the break into up to four separate columns.

Office Squared integrates with Google Docs, MobileMe iDisk, DropBox, Box.net, iCloud, MyDisk and all WebDAV enabled cloud-based services.

Office² HD comes packaged with both a spreadsheet component. And a May 2011 update has expanded the application's functionality to include the ability to create and edit Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt) files.

The app has its critics. It has come under fire for purportedly not allowing users to edit Office 2007 files or 2008 or later Excel files.

The iPad version of Office² HD is available for download and purchase from the iTunes store for a price of $7.99.

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Office Squared

Jason Murphey | April 15, 2012 10:36 pm

Version 5 Upgrade Proves Transformative For Office Squared

Until version 5, the Office Squared claim to fame centered around its low price. The app offered writers an opportunity to own a decent rich text word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program at a very low cost. However, there was not much significantly unique or innovative about the app. You got what you paid for with Office Squared because several of the other iPad word processor app offered better features and probably a nicer user interface as well. Now, with the release of the new version, much of this has changed. The app includes multiple features that are either extremely innovative or perhaps unique only to Office Squared. Best yet, the iPad version of Office Squared still prices out at just $7.99 USD.
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