Step 3: Again via the Apple App store, and install Documents To Go Premium – Office Suite. Pbox account with on your desktop computer. Enter the same user name and password that you setup your Dro Step 2: Install the free Dropbox app on your iPad (or iPhone, or Blackberry, or Android phone if you have one) via the Apple App store. I personally subscribe to the 50GB plan because I store all my family photos there along with all my documents, but I digress. The use of Dropbox is free for up to 2GB of data, and then $10 per month (for $99 per year) for 50GB of data.

It is a wonderful service if you use more than one computer (or computer & iPad/iPhone). The next time I turn on my laptop, it checks to see if any files have changed, and then if they have, download the changed files to my laptop. So when I save a file to my Dropbox folder on my desktop computer, that file gets save to my account on the dropbox server on the internet. For example, I have dropbox running on my Mac laptop and Windows desktop computer. Dropbox is a cloud service that synchronizes files between your computers, and keeps them up to date.

Step 1: If you don’t have a free Dropbox account already, then now is your excuse to finally download and install it on your desktop computer(s).

Here is what you need to turn your iPad into a document editing & syncing machine: Here’s the equation:ĭropbox + Documents To Go = iPad Document Nirvana! The good new is that I finally have a good answer, and ironically the apps that facilitate the editing and syncing are ones that I’ve used for years now, one of which has just recently come to the iPad and iPhone… or at least recently came to my attention. How to sync and edit documents from my desktop computer on my iPad is a question that I’ve had ever since I purchased my iPad in April of 2010.

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