Transferring Microsoft Office Files from Your iPad to Your Computer

After you have either created a document in an iWork app on your iPad or imported and edited a Microsoft Office file in an iWork app, you may want to send it back to your computer.

When you export a document out of an iWork app, you can save your file in one of three file formats:

  • PDF

  • iWork format (as a Pages, Numbers, or Keynote file)

  • Microsoft Office format (as a Word file)

Saving a file in PDF lets any computer view your data, but without special PDF-editing software, other people won't be able to edit that data. As a result, PDF is most useful for sharing data for others to read, especially among people who may be using different types of computers.

Saving a file in an iWork format ...

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