what am I doing wrong?

[ritaxis]

I got this Nexus tablet to travel with but I can't work on my files with it. Mostly it just won't open things. When it does open things, everything is apparently read-only. I have tried four different apps: "document viewer," naturally only for viewing: kingsoft office, which a friend of mine uses to edit just fine: android office: and android open office.  There is just no responsiveness at all: I can view the text, and scroll around in it -- but the onscreen buttons don't work.

These are files from dropbox and google drive, and only the .rtf ones, not the .doc ones. The .doc ones produce a grey field where the text should be. When I was trying this with kingsoft, I got errors with .rtf, but the docs would open.

I have spent hours and hours and hours on this. I am actually heartbroken. The whole point of spending money I didn't have was to edit my files while I am traveling.

Comments

[ellarien]

I recently got a Nexus 7 and love it, and I'm sorry you're having trouble.

I haven't yet found a free android app that will edit rtf at all, but I have no problem editing .doc files with the free version of Kingsoft, so that does sound like a permission problem. (My only other thought is that I don't know what would happen if the .doc files were really .rtf "under the hood", which I seem to remember could happen with some early versions of OpenOffice.

What happens if you use Kingsoft to open a new file?

Seconding the recommendation for Swype -- but be warned that "smart" keyboards take some getting used to!