How to get Microsoft WORD,EXCEL, PowerPoint Files on Iphone

[dc5itr888]

Hi, I have heard that the iphone has the ability to view Microsoft Excel, Word, And PowerPoint files. However, I have no idea how to upload it onto my iphone nor do I kno where to view it. Can anyone help me?? I searched but all I found was that the iphone had the ability to do this and a big argument why microsoft doesnt like apple. Also I have a unlocked iphone so if I need a 3rd party app I can install it. Thanks

[Kabeyun]

iPhone can natively read these documents if you're sent an e-mail with an attachment. Unfortunately there is no separate application to view them, let alone edit them.

There, however, are a host of web apps to look through. Some, like in.solit.us, store your docs on a web disk and allow you access to them from your iPhone or other mobile device.

Apple has announced there will be a software dev kit (i.e. native iPhone apps) but that won't be released until February. Naturally, apps won't come until substantially after that.

-K

[OJsakila]

my word and excel files show fine. All you gotta do is email them to yourself. Of course you won't be able to edit them. You can do this with a vanilla phone. To edit you will have to follow the previous posters suggestions...

[dc5itr888]

hi, i just sent them to myself and opened up my yahoo account thru the mail button on the iphone. i see the email and the attachment but how do i open the attachment itself??

[Lincoln]

I use Google Docs.

[bsharp]

Originally Posted by OJsakila

my word and excel files show fine. All you gotta do is email them to yourself. Of course you won't be able to edit them. You can do this with a vanilla phone. To edit you will have to follow the previous posters suggestions...

Make sure that you use the proper extensions (.doc, .xls, etc.), or (in my experience) you won't be able to view them.

[dc5itr888]

yah their extension is ppt which is what im trying to view a powerpoint file...i sent them to myself and i open up the mail key and i see it there except i see the file and .ppt at the end of my file and what do i do?? do i tap the icon itself or something else cause when i tap the icon of the file it just zooms in and does nothing

[bsharp]

To my knowledge, the iPhone only currently reads Word and Excel documents. I don't think PowerPoint is supported. I tried it, and it wouldn't open the PowerPoint file.
For a Word file, the iPhone actually has an arrow that you can tap, opening the document in another window.

[littlerikagirl]

Have you tried the Air Sharing app?
http://www.avatron.com/products/
Super easy to set up and use, support for a whole bunch of formats incl. ppt. No edit-from-phone feature as far as I can tell but fantastic for getting files onto the phone that you might want to read.
And for the next two weeks it's free!