Microsoft Office for iPad: An Essential Guide to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive

Chapter 3. Setting Up OneDrive

When you have Office on your iPad and on your desktop machines, you need some way to easily share the files through a cloud service so you can work on your documents anywhere. Apple has made the process difficult, however, by implementing unusual security requirements, hiding files and folders on iPads, and making it difficult for different apps to share files. Apple suggests that developers use its own iCloud service, but many developers find using iCloud for shared storage to be difficult to implement, subject to arbitrary changes in Apple’s policies, and technically not ready for prime time. A large number of developers have turned to the popular Dropbox shared storage application, which works well on almost ...