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From: Sak Wathanasin on 28 Jun 2010 04:20
Spent some quality time with the iPad yesterday, running a badminton
tournament using only the iPad for admin (didn't take the MBP - my
backup was pen & paper forms). It worked a treat - the long battery
life and light weight (could be lighter, but, hey...) meant I wasn't
stuck at the desk or tethered to a powerpoint and could wander round
the hall getting results as games were played and dealing with various
crises etc. and the screen size meant I wasn't endlessly scrolling
about to find the bits I needed. Printing from the iPad would have
been good - as it was I had to update the public-display result sheet
by hand. C'mon, Apple, let's be having OS 4.1.

It was much easier than doing it with the MPB last year and pretty
much confirms my theory that the iPad is a great platform for data
capture, 1-finger typing notwithstanding. I used an Excel spreadsheet
from last year, converted to Numbers on MPB, then to Numbers on the
iPad. There are quite a few things that Numbers on the iPad doesn't
support, which needed adjusting pre-tournament.

The downside is that when I re-exported the file back to the MBP for
post-tournament editing (fixing typos, making sure names spelt
consistently etc) is that it really mangled the formatting. I now
either have to spend a lot of time fixing it on the MBP or do all the
editing on the iPad, then export as PDF.

I can feel a custom app coming on...
From: Woody on 28 Jun 2010 04:31
Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote:

>. I used an Excel spreadsheet
> from last year, converted to Numbers on MPB, then to Numbers on the
> iPad. There are quite a few things that Numbers on the iPad doesn't
> support, which needed adjusting pre-tournament.
>
> The downside is that when I re-exported the file back to the MBP for
> post-tournament editing (fixing typos, making sure names spelt
> consistently etc) is that it really mangled the formatting. I now
> either have to spend a lot of time fixing it on the MBP or do all the
> editing on the iPad, then export as PDF.
>
> I can feel a custom app coming on...

A custom app would be the ideal (I use a custom app to show people at
shows products etc), but failing that, docs-to-go opens excel
spreadsheets and doesn't seem to mangle them too much

--
Woody
From: Chris Ridd on 28 Jun 2010 04:35
On 2010-06-28 09:31:40 +0100, Woody said:

> Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> . I used an Excel spreadsheet
>> from last year, converted to Numbers on MPB, then to Numbers on the
>> iPad. There are quite a few things that Numbers on the iPad doesn't
>> support, which needed adjusting pre-tournament.
>>
>> The downside is that when I re-exported the file back to the MBP for
>> post-tournament editing (fixing typos, making sure names spelt
>> consistently etc) is that it really mangled the formatting. I now
>> either have to spend a lot of time fixing it on the MBP or do all the
>> editing on the iPad, then export as PDF.
>>
>> I can feel a custom app coming on...
>
> A custom app would be the ideal (I use a custom app to show people at
> shows products etc), but failing that, docs-to-go opens excel
> spreadsheets and doesn't seem to mangle them too much

Documents to Go always had a good reputation for handling Office
documents well, right back to the PalmOS days.
--
Chris

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