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If you bought this book (or are even thinking about buying it), you’ve probably already made the decision to use an iPad in your work. That's great, because the iPad makes a great tool for people in all sorts of businesses. Maybe your iPad is an adjunct to your computer, or maybe it's your primary computer. Either way, this book has you covered.

About This Book

Who you may be, dear reader, varies widely. Maybe you've been using an iPad for entertainment and other personal activities, or maybe you're completely new to the iPad. Maybe you're self-employed, or part of a small business that has little or no tech support. Maybe you work for a big company that has an IT department to both help you and impose rules on how you can use your iPad at work. The type of business the readers of this book do also varies widely.

That's why I cover a wide range of activities that you may do with your iPad for the purpose of work. I also cover multiple tools that you might use for each kind of task, because the right tool for you might not be the right tool for someone else.

This book helps you select and use the right tools for your work needs, as well as use the iPad effectively and safely in your work environment by addressing issues such as keeping work and personal information separate.

Here’s one thing this book won't do: Teach you the basics of the iPad. Many good books are available to show you how to use the iPad itself, and several of those books come from the publisher of this book, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Start with one of them if you are new to the iPad, and then use this book to learn how to make the iPad work at work.

If you're completely new to the iPad, I recommend that you get Wiley's iPad For Seniors For Dummies, by Nancy Muir. Don't let the “Seniors” in the name dissuade you: It's a great primer for anyone.

Foolish Assumptions

This book is organized by sets of functions that people do at or for work. Although I do walk you through the steps to accomplish specific tasks in apps where those tasks are complex, this book is not a recipe book for using apps. Instead it’s a guide to picking the right tools and understanding how to make the iPad fit into common business workflows and practices.

I presume that you know how to do your job, so my tone is direct and uncomplicated, with no idle chitchat. I give you straightforward advice and recommendations for the right tools to do that job. Some of the issues I raise are technical or complicated because, well, that's just how work is sometimes – but I do my best to make those issues clear.

Each chapter covers a range of tools for the work you may do. I show what these tools do well and how they work at a basic level. I also let you know their limitations and requirements so that you can assess their fitness for your work.

Conventions and Icons Used in This Book

This book uses several iPad-specific terms, including:

✔ Tap: Press your finger on the screen and release it quickly.

✔ Swipe: Drag a finger across a substantial portion of the screen, often to scroll the screen's contents. Some apps use the word slide to describe this action.

✔ Flick: Quickly drag a finger over a short area and then release it from the screen, usually to reveal a menu button like Delete.

✔ Press: Push down on a physical button with your finger and then release it. The iPad does have a few physical buttons and switches, including Home, Volume Up, Volume Down, Sleep/Wake, and the so-called Side switch that can be set to lock the screen rotation or mute the iPad. (The iPad Air 2 does not have the Side switch, so use the corresponding controls in the Control Center instead; you access the Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.)

✔ Pop-over: A container for features and commands similar to a dialog, palette, or sheet in a computer application. You can dismiss a pop-over by tapping elsewhere on the screen.

✔ Form: A container for features and commands that you can dismiss only by tapping a button such as Done, Cancel, or OK. It's like the settings sheet in the Mac's OS X user interface.

✔ Status bar: The menu bar at the very top of the iPad screen that stays visible most of the time, displaying the time, network connection status, battery charge, and so on.

✔ Home screen: The screens that display app and folder icons. Your iPad can have as many as 15 Home screens, which you navigate by swiping sideways among them.

✔ Home button: The physical button at the bottom side of the iPad (when held vertically). Press the Home button to switch from an app to the last Home screen opened, and press it again to go to the first Home button. Double-press the Home button to enter multitasking view, which shows all running apps. Tap an app's preview screen to switch to it.

Three icons are used in this book to alert you to special content:

Tip icons point out insights or helpful suggestions related to tasks in the step lists.

Remember icons point out context or background information that will help you avoid mistakes or confusion later on.

Warning icons point out things that don't work as you'd expect or don't work correctly. I provide suggestions for how to deal with such warnings.

Beyond the Book

I have written a lot of extra content that you won’t find in this book. Go online to find the following:

✔ Online articles covering additional topics at

www.dummies.com/extras/ipadatwork

Here you’ll find out how to avoid ever losing the contents of your iPad; use the new Handoff feature to pick up from where you left off while working on another device; make your iPad act like a phone if your iPhone is close by; turn your iPad into a Wi-Fi hotspot; record your iPad’s screen by using your computer and an app; and print from your iPad. Here you’ll also find ten preferences in the Settings app that every business user should know.

✔ The Cheat Sheet for this book is at

www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/ipadatwork

Here you’ll find a primer on using the iPad's gestures and buttons, common Siri controls, and the apps supported by the various accounts the iPad can access.

✔ Updates to this book, if I have any, are at

www.dummies.com/extras/ipadatwork

Where to Go from Here

The book's chapters are organized into parts so that related business issues are kept together. But you can read the chapters in any order – let your needs and questions determine what you read, and when.

But I do recommend that you start with Chapters 1 through 3, because they cover issues that many users simply don’t think about when using an iPad for work, such as what iPad model to buy and how to manage business accounts and data separately from personal accounts and data. Getting these issues right will make the rest of your iPad experience a lot more pleasant, and effective.

This book assumes that your iPad is running iOS 8, the operating system released in fall 2014. Apple updates iOS roughly once each year, so you may be running an earlier or later version. (Your iPad or iTunes on your computer will alert you to both those major updates and to smaller updates that occur in between.)

Those changes may affect what you see on the screen, but you'll find the app advice and basic operational instructions to be the same whether you are using iOS 7, iOS 8, or something newer. When a change is very substantial, I may add an update or bonus information that you can download at this book’s companion website, www.dummies.com/extras/ipadatwork.