---
title: Microsoft Office For iPad
date: 2014-03-29 13:22:47
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2014/03/29/microsoft-office-for-ipad/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "After roughly four years in the making, Microsoft Office for iPad is finally here, and it's free for viewing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. To edit, you'll need an Office 365 subscription, with Home Premium at S$138 a year."
categories:
  - Software
tags:
  - iPad
  - Microsoft
  - Microsoft Office
  - Office 365
---

After about 4 years in the making, Microsoft Office for iPad is finally here and it is free!

Free in the sense that you can view Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents, but if you want to edit them, you need to have a [Office 365 subscription](https://lesterchan.net/blog/2013/02/02/microsoft-releases-office-365-office-2013/).

An Office 365 Home Premium subscription (S$138.00/year or S$13.80/month) allows you to use Microsoft Office on 5 PC/Macs and 5 mobile devices (total of 10 devices). Note that Surface devices doesn’t count as part of the 10 devices as they provide a perpetual Office licence per Surface.

[![App Store](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/13460507255_b61aae43a3_c.jpg "App Store")](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/13460507255_bed1357d42_o.png "App Store")

You can download Microsoft Office for iPad from the App Store: itunes.com/apps/microsoftoffice.

[![Microsoft Word for iPad](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/13460867114_b2fc7d11ec_c.jpg "Microsoft Word for iPad")](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/13460867114_18d2bb50d5_o.png "Microsoft Word for iPad")

[![Microsoft Excel for iPad](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/13460502665_342465d69b_c.jpg "Microsoft Excel for iPad")](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/13460502665_1648b9ff6a_o.png "Microsoft Excel for iPad")

[![Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2846/13460867374_a34c0f0bd2_c.jpg "Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad")](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2846/13460867374_f0e56cec82_o.png "Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad")

[![Microsoft OneNote for iPad](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2924/13460910343_8811d8849a_c.jpg "Microsoft OneNote for iPad")](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2924/13460910343_c1d3f6f0b9_o.png "Microsoft OneNote for iPad")

[![Microsoft Office for iPad](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7227/13460872763_a89398e74c_c.jpg "Microsoft Office for iPad")](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7227/13460872763_ae12b6f7a7_o.png "Microsoft Office for iPad")