Microsoft Word 4+

Great app. Business and academic apps like this are sometimes harder to navigate on iPads or smart devices because you can’t see all the icons like you would on a laptop screen, and the layout is a little different, but it still does mostly everything you’d need for work or school. There are certain things that you can’t do unless you pay and upgrade to premium, like getting unlimited text colors, but that’s pretty much what you get with every app these days. The app still lets you be cheap and get away with making word documents without premium if you don’t want all the bells and whistles included, and it’s still functional, so I don’t personally mind not having premium. You can get by without it if you don’t want to spend the extra money-shoutout to all the broke college students out there and all the kids whose parents won’t let them upgrade- but if you’re willing/have the means to pay, hats off to ya. All in all, it serves its purpose and does what it’s supposed to, it’s not glitchy, and it’s pretty easy to use. I like it. So, that’s my two cents in the subject. Try it out, see what you think, and you can always delete it I guess. :)

Well I use Microsoft word at work, the mobile version is vastly inferior. If it were free, I probably couldn’t complain. But, if you want to get the capability of redlining documents and other important work-related actions, you have to purchase the subscription. This is where the trouble begins. Microsoft support is terrible. Several times a year the program won’t work and tells me I need a subscription. I’ve spent hours on the phone with Microsoft since I first purchased this program. There’s some sort of company disconnect between their accounting department and mobile services. This needs to be fixed.

Regarding the applications performance, at best it’s OK. It tends to be slow, saving a document while you were working on it is not as straightforward as it should be, and if you want to dictate, you better proofread twice. Many of the desired editing features are not available in this mobile application. Formatting is next to impossible and many many other features are not available. While I don’t think you can expect 100% duplication, iPad cost more than most PCs, have ample memory, and should be capable of handling all of the commands necessary to do a competent job of preparing a word document. And you should not have to have an external keyboard with your iPad to perform the tasks. Bottom line, The program is livable, but not particularly likable.

I downloaded this app to write on the go, because writing in my notes app was rather tiring and would lag often. At first, this app suited me well.
But after awhile (like a couple weeks) it started being glitchy. I would tap the screen to go to a certain sentence and it’d bring me to the top (very annoying to have to scroll back down 40 pages) and sometimes when I would highlight a word it would highlight not where I selected. However, my biggest complaint is that is doesn’t save. I’ve checked and double checked that autosave is on, I’ve made sure I’ve connected it to my one drive, yet still it won’t save. The first time this happened it erased maybe 4 pages of progress. I thought it was my fault at first, maybe something had gone wrong on my end. I didn’t recall exiting the document before closing the app, maybe it’s on me.
But then last night, after 3+ hours in which I wrote almost 4k words across 7 pages, I made sure it had said “saved” and made sure I closed the document before hand. When I woke up this morning to go back in, ALL my progress had been completely erased. It was massively disappointing, especially considering it was a rather important thing.
Now I will have to redo do it, but it won’t be on this app. I hate to give word a bad review but this has now happened twice and erased a lot of progress on my end.
Please fix this.