Jun 20, · TIP: You can alternatively add the documents to the iPhone or iPad via directly drag-dropping them to the open CopyTrans Apps window. The selected Office documents are now readily accessible on the iPad from within the document-reader app. NOTE: You can also edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents saved on your iPad or iPhone.4/5(33). While it's actually a very simple operation once you know how to do it, it's not something that's very obvious to people who are new to iOS (as many iPad users are). How to Transfer Files to Author: Adam Dachis. If it doesn’t, just click on the Sync button. On your iPad, open the appropriate app for the content. For example, open Music for any music files, Videos for any videos, iBooks for any books or audiobooks, etc. Above, I synced a MP4 video file to my iPad and in order to view the video, I had to open the Videos app.