Can you use this to write on, taking notes, that can be transferred into Word?
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My Acer A210 came with Polaris Office. Check your apps. When I pull up Polaris Office, in the upper right corner is a small white document shape with a + in it. When I click on it, it gives me several options of Word Document 97-2003, Word 2007, Sheet 97-2003, Sheet 2007, Slide 97-2003, Slide 2007 & Text. You can save PDF files and Word files and find them easily in Polaris Office. There are several ways to take notes using Polaris Office. Also, check into Evernote for Android. It is a fabulous tool!You can download the app in Play store if your tablet didn't come already loaded with it.
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Sorry, based on my personal experience with that tablet you can do almost nothing. I had your issue from day 1, I contacted Acer several times, no help whatsoever. I wanted it precisely to write while traveling as well as for email. No instructions, or manual, or online help. Sorry for you; we both made a mistake buying Acer's tablet.
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Yes, you've a number of options. You can use Google Drive, which is an online office suite like MS Office. This saves to Word (and Excel and PowerPoint). You can also download several free and paid for apps to create Word documents.
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I've been using One Note on this tablet and I've been having the documents sync to one drive. I can access those notebooks both on my tablet as well as my PC using windows 7. I'd imagine you could do the same with other documents stored on One Drive as well as dropbox for example.
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Short answer: no. This device is a lot like an electronic version of the old doodle pads, where you press a lighter plastic film onto the black background. You can take notes, but once you erase, they're gone. I use it in place of small scraps of paper.
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No, you can't. Because you need a mini USB kind pendrive ! I have some of them in sale !
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Yes it can run Microsoft word. It doesn't come pre-installed, but if you already own a copy, you can likely transfer that about to the surface.
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Yes but once you use it for Mac then it's only for Mac and if you want to use it on windows you have to formatt all over. Works both Mac and windows. If you use it on windows then u can read files on Mac but can't write on it.
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You should be able to. It's just a small tower computer. The USB ports should allow you to hook up the external writer easily.
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Absolutely. I use it to pull in people's Word docs (95-2009) all the time easily. The only issues you'll ever face are if a document has extreme levels of graphs/images/styling/outlining - sometimes those items don't convert perfectly. Most people don't create documents for which that's ever been a problem for me or anyone else in our company, though.
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I have not used for writing. However I would say yes . This is a quality item .. Sturdy and looks like it does online.
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Not really. Mainly for social media and youtube. Word Docs and the like can be used easily but this is just to slow for active game play.
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that is what i use it for. the surface isn't smoothe, so you will need something under your paper for writing
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Hi Paula, this is exactly what I'm looking for as well. I'm also a freelance writer looking for a recorder that I can refer back to so as to transcribe my notes. I've been trying to do it by hand and I just can't keep up with it. I also have a Macbook Pro if that's a help. Did you end up buying this or do you have another you could recommend. Thank you so much.
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Yes. The Surface Pro 3 has a selection of onscreen keyboards, one of which allows you to convert handwriting to type. I tested this in the desktop version of Word, and it works amazingly well, even with my sloppy cursive.
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Negative, Word is not listed in the apps. I guess you could find and download some free facsimile, then to I don't know what the memory requirements for that would be.
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Unless you want to record what you are writing, you can use it as an expensive notebook
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Hey Anne, when I write block letters, it does convert to text pretty well, but that makes writing kind of slow. If you want to use the Livescribe Echo and a software tool, I am not sure what is out there. On the other hand there are several handwriting to text conversion programs out there, some free: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/convert-your-handwritten-notes-to-text-by-using-windows-journal
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I'm not sure what your question is but yes you can write down anything with your stylus using your hand and than save it, ofcourse you would need a program like paint, illustrator, photosho, or any other. In your case you will probably need a program that recognizes hand drawn shapes and translates them to text.