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Li Ming's avatar

I have to admit I am an android person trying to do some of the same things (sorry the Apple walled garden drives me nuts) and am typing this on a Mi Pad 6. Recently discovered Softmakers freemium office suite. Their Excel equivalent is called Planmaker I think. On my tablet it's a near dupe of the desktop and let's u open more than 1 sheet in multiple tabs. There is an apple version of the app, I believe, so maybe u could give it a try?

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R.A.Chalmers as F.X.Dugan's avatar

Brilliant. Finally someone who like me, really favours the iPad. Not only that, in my case I’ve been using the iPad Mini since the iPad mini 5, and I now have the iPad mini 6. It’s perfect. I write with Scrivener, having a few books published now, and use Word occasionally. I use the three Affinity apps, Publisher, Designer and Photo. They cover the lot. I don’t have an external keyboard. I use the floating keyboard on screen. I haven’t found anything I can’t do on it yet.

I’ve done over 750 YouTube videos mostly using my trusty Mini 6. I’m now waiting for the Mini 7.

I love this device. It fits in my coat pocket and has almost no weight. Appel Pencil 2 works easily with it, and magnetically snaps to the side. So I can be sitting in a coffee shop and tap out a few words while waiting for my partner.

I have an M2 Mac Mini and 4K monitor on it and it barely gets used from one day to the next.

So great, I love pushing this stuff to its limits.

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