I am self-employed and have my work time sheets in a very personalized format in Excel files on my Thinkpad laptop. I want to be able to access these Excel Time Sheets when I am out in the field working so I can record what I do hour by hour during the day.
I don't want to take the Thinkpad into the field because it is "veruh, veruh expensive" if you know what I mean.
So, I copied these Excel time sheet to my much less expensive Samsung tablet. Then I open them in the tablet with the Microsoft Excel app for Android. They appear perfectly in this app, just as they appear on the Thinkpad. The only problem is I cannot
edit them on the tablet. All the files say "read only." (Two hours later.) I did finally find the way to edit my Excel files on the Excel android app on the Samsung tablet. But, honestly, it was way toooooo cumbersome. This should have been really easy.
After all, they are my files and Microsoft should never tell me MY FILES ARE READ ONLY.
I am sincerely interested if anyone has had similar problems with Word or Excel files copied to an Android tablet. And, before anyone suggests that I should just post my Excel time sheets to One Drive, I'll offer two reasons why that won't work. For one,
my very personalized files (color columns, slanted column titles, etc) would not open in One Drive and appear exactly as they do on my Thinkpad with Office 365. So, if they were to sync from One Drive back to the Thinkpad, there would be a compatibility problem.
In addition, I am often without wi-fi contact in the field, so there would be no way for me to access the time sheet on the Samsung tablet if they were only "in the cloud."
Thanks for any feedback,
Bill Phillips
Durham, NC, USA