If we have to open a document on the smartphone, you need spreadsheet apps many would use without any problem.

The Office suite offered by Microsoft on all platforms, so as to have familiar programs to interact with (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, just to name the most famous).

To this, we add that, even if with reduced functionality, the apps are offered free of charge to anyone with a Microsoft account available.

So, you can use them anytime and anywhere. In fact, there are a lot of other Office apps available for Android and iPhone, just waiting to be downloaded and used (many of them free and without the limits seen on Microsoft apps).

In this guide we discover the best alternative apps to Microsoft Office to be installed on Android devices and iPhone; if we just can’t give up Office, at the end of the article we will show you the links to download the official apps of the Microsoft Office suite.



Docs to Go’s spreadsheet app are packed with features yet very easy to use. The actual user interface is similar to Excelso it will not be hard for you to figure out how to change cells. You can almost work as usual with these apps. When you insert a function, you get a full-page list of options that you can take to heart.

However, you can also sort this long list by categories, such as finance or statistics.

The cell properties and the entire table formatting can be easily found and applied. You can also switch between different worksheets by selecting the option from the display menu. A dialog will appear with all existing worksheets.

The Docs to Go spreadsheet apps offers many advanced options, such as clipping a clipping, cell sorting, and jumping to a specific cell within an open worksheet.

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OfficeSuite Pro’s spreadsheet app is almost identical to one of the Documents to Go. The app is intuitive and offers many features. It includes the same basic and advanced options as Documents to Go.

In fact, when looking at the spreadsheet apps alone, the two apps are almost indistinguishable. Both are very good, although the main menu of OfficeSuite Pro, which you use to access the spreadsheet apps, is still the weak point.



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#3. Quickoffice:

Quickoffice offers some of the functionality available in Documents to Go and OfficeSuite, but many of these features are placed in the multi-level menu. This arrangement makes navigation through the spreadsheet apps difficult. For example, number formatting is included in the main list of options that is called when you press the Home button on your smartphone. However, if you want to change the font, you must press the Menu key, then select More to find the formatting you want in a scrolling list on your screen, and Quickoffice can open Excel documents as of Office 2003.

The app lacks the options to format the entire cells and you have to type in all functions manually. There is no Excel-like list of functions from which you can easily insert the function you are looking for. The Quickoffice spreadsheet apps have the ability to jump to a specific cell and lets you manage worksheets through an option in the App menu.



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#4. ThinkFree:

As with the text editor, ThinkFree’s spreadsheet app are integrated into a scrollable list at the bottom of the screen. The disadvantages of this system are even more effective here than was already the case in the last category. It is incredibly difficult to find out which of the symbols represents which function. Overall, it becomes a challenge to apply a simple function.

The ThinkFree spreadsheet apps also does not provide a user-friendly way to insert a function into a cell. You must manually type the function in the space provided at the top of the screen. Also with this app you can jump directly to a cell and simply change the worksheet.

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#5. Google Docs:



The google Docs spreadsheet app is very similar to the text editor. If you just want to watch something or change trivia, you can do it quickly with Google Docs. Other features or options do not exist.

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#6. WPS Office:

An even more complete suite that we can use on smartphones to open any document is WPS Office. With this suite, we can edit documents, spreadsheets app, presentations made with Office on the PC and more we can view and edit PDFs, so you always have everything under control when we receive work documents by email or chat. The free version allows you to view and edit with some limitations; to unlock all features we will have to purchase the paid version.

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