Microsoft said Tuesday that its had added the ability to print to office 2010 standard for iPad suite, covering up an ugly bruise on an otherwise well-regarded office suite.

Microsoft announced the update in a blog post, noting, unsurprisingly, that printing had been the most popular attribute request by end users. Microsoft's Office for iPad suite is published as 3 separate apps?aWord, PowerPoint, and Excel?aand end users will have to update each app separately via the Apple App Store.

Microsoft also said the new update includes SmartGuides for PowerPoint and AutoFit for Excel, two characteristics that may improve the appearance of content in the two apps, respectively.

Although buy office professional 2010 suite for that Apple tablet received positive if not rave reviews, one of its omissions was the ability to print. Microsoft's Office team then took to Reddit to promise it was coming, but they didn't say when. Thirty-three days after its release, it came. The new software apps use Apple's AirPrint to wirelessly connect to a range of supported printers.

The new PowerPoint app also includes SmartGuides, which provides some intelligence when moving images and other components of a presentation around on the page. AutoFit in Excel lets you adjust the width of a number of rows or the height of a number of columns at the same time, Microsoft said. The new apps also include other undisclosed stability improvements.

By adding the printing attribute, Microsoft has now made its "free" app markedly better. But it even now requires an Office 365 license, a tie that office 2013 home and student appears in no hurry to sever. "We believe that you get the best as much as date Office experience [in] the Office 365 subscription," Kaberi Chowdhury, a technical product manager for that Office for that iPad team, wrote during the Reddit Q&A session.