Microsoft has already started pointing out the bugs in Office for iPad right on the day it released the app showing its commitment towards ensuring that customers are not left in the dark about known issues.
First off, it’s the inability to open Excel files from a SharePoint 2010 through Office for iPad and second is inability to open PowerPoint files from a SharePoint 2010 on an iPad.
Both the issues affect users of SharePoint 2010 and the issue is to do with SharePoint 2010 requirement of plugin or active X to launch client applications. iOS doesn’t allow for plugins or ActiveX and Microsoft has listed workarounds that will allow users to open the files.
Users will be required to ‘Add a Place’ within the application that connects to the SharePoint Document Library and fill in the url or internet address of the SharePoint Document Library. This will enable them to open both the Excel as well as PowerPoint files.
Neither SharePoint 2013 nor SharePoint Online users will face such an issue as both of them support protocol handlers that work with iPad just fine.
