Open Office for Android alternatives

[kindakooky]

My laptop only came with a Starter version of MS Office 2010 installed and since i didn't want to pay out for a full version of MS Office that i only want for occasional use, i decided to try Open Office instead, which i am quite happy with. But i would now really like an office suite i can use on my Nexus 7 which is compatible with Open Office so i can create documents on my laptop or my Nexus and be able to transfer them between the two. Of course the most obvious answer would seem to be AndrOpen Office (Open Office for Android), but after trying it out on my Nexus i don't like it - the interface is really clunky and difficult to navigate. So this leads me to ask, are there any other alternatives for what i'm asking?

 

[chanchan05]

Try Polaris or WPS. I can't remember which one of them opens open office, only I seem to remember at least one of them does.

 

[zuben el genub]

Open Office does save in the doc, and docx format same as Office. The same would go for XLS.

You can use these formats. Docs to Go also uses them.

I'm stuck as even WordPerfect has changed. A lot of my stuff is in WPD.

 

[kindakooky]

Open Office does save in the doc, and docx format same as Office. The same would go for XLS.

You can use these formats. Docs to Go also uses them.

I'm stuck as even WordPerfect has changed. A lot of my stuff is in WPD.

I had no idea you could save documents in Open Office in the doc and xls formats! So you're saying if i wanted to open such files on my Nexus, i could do that using an Android office suite like WPS and it wouldn't matter if they weren't created using MS Word, Excel etc, cos they're still in the same format?

Edit: One thing i just realised - after quickly creating a small test document in Open Office Writer i went to save it and can see no option to save it as docx (although doc is indeed an option).

 

[Crashdamage]

The docx option should be there unless you're using a very old version of Open Office. FYI, Open Office is pretty much abandoned. OO users have mostly migrated to Libre Office, a continuation of OO.