Microsoft Office isn’t the only game in town. Office for iPad provides a more powerful editing experience on the iPad, but note that all the mobile apps require an Office 365 subscription for editing (viewing is free). The Office Mobile applications for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone also allow you to view and edit Office documents stored in your OneDrive account for free. OneDrive is integrated into Windows 8.1 and is available as a free download for previous versions of Windows. Microsoft Office users can save documents to Microsoft’s free OneDrive cloud storage service, then access the Office Online website in a web browser to view and even edit the documents from wherever you are. If you’re worried about storing sensitive files online, you can always encrypt files before storing them in the cloud. The downside is that you’re limited by the amount of storage the service provides. The upside is that your remote PC doesn’t have to be powered on.

You can then access them from anywhere via your web browser, the service’s mobile app, or its syncing client. Place your files into a service like Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive and they’ll sync online. The average PC user will probably want to stick with a cloud storage service instead of a remote file access solution. Keep remote file access simple with Dropbox or another cloud storage service. (Parallels Access doesn’t support direct file transfers.) Ian Lamont The Android, iPad, and iPhone apps also have file-transfer support, so you can download files from your PC to your smartphone or tablet. In TeamViewer, just select “file transfer” while connecting to a remote computer with TeamViewer, and you’ll be able to access all the files on your PC’s hard drive or upload files to your remote PC from your current device.

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