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A small client is looking to have a couple tablets that they can use around their restaurant for the managers to be able to create, edit, &nbsp;view, update word and Excel documents and that another user at a windows desktop will also be able to work on (not concurrently).<br />
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From what I can see, Office for Android is free?<br />
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Does anyone have recommendations on a tablet for this type of use? I would describe the spreadsheets they are looking to use on the tablets as relatively simple: 1 page, no more than 50 to 100 rows, 20 columns, maybe a column or 2 doing some addition, a total in a couple cells at the bottom.
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A small client is looking to have a couple tablets that they can use around their restaurant for the managers to be able to create, edit,  view, update word and Excel documents and that another user at a windows desktop will also be able to work on (not concurrently).

From what I can see, Office for Android is free?

Does anyone have recommendations on a tablet for this type of use? I would describe the spreadsheets they are looking to use on the tablets as relatively simple: 1 page, no more than 50 to 100 rows, 20 columns, maybe a column or 2 doing some addition, a total in a couple cells at the bottom.

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