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Not for real Editing work - not reliable
This app is not a replacement for separate office apps, word, excel and PowerPoint, it is nothing but a quick way to add and delete some data, other than that it would be very hard to create a complete document trying to use features like tables and objects and formatting etc. i used it on iPad Pro M1 yet its performance was bad and many features are missing. Also you will face a problem when sharing the document from a windows to iOS using this app, as the view of the document is different on both. Objects tends to move from its place and the whole formatting of the documents gets ruined. That is not the kind of quality that we were used to from Microsoft when it comes to office suite. I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT better use the separate apps, yet still it is not as powerful or easy as on windows and that is a shameful strategy from Microsoft to not power up office on apple products.Show lessKsabry
Incredibly confusing interface
The iPad version is adequate though it’s hard to tell if a document is auto-saving or not. When I tap the “back” button, thinking I’m going to the main menu, Outlook opens as if I’m sharing the newly edited document. I then find out the edited version has NOT been saved.
Even more confusion ensues when I work on docs on my laptop. MS One Drive is completely useless. Every document appears to have a different “save” pathway- eg “OneDrive”, “OneDrive personal”, “OneDrive for business”, etc. Sometimes the web version of Office opens, sometimes the app opens. Nothing makes sense.
I’m glad I my institution wasted their money on this and not myself... That being said, unfortunately I’m stuck using this garbage.Show lessHsbbba
Subpar on IOS
My experiences with Office on desktop allowed me to overestimate what to expect from office. On iPad, the mobile view makes it difficult to distinguish one page from the next, move the cursor, and format your page. I understand there is a desktop type view. It doesn’t fit the bill, which is why there’s an iPad version to begin with. I think everything else works.Show lessChaaract
Great but…
It sometimes can be difficult to get office online and updating in real-time on some devices Each device seems to have its own method and depending whether your connecting through a router, wireless or wifi. You first have to learn how to identify if you are online or not which isn’t very obvious. Then you need to workout how to get online. It can drop off if you don’t use it for a while or are move aroundShow lessgvtkvbktvktvktf
Keeps removing its links
The links to the SharePoints on the desktop keep breaking. ALL the top folders then need to be reloaded each time. Nightmare.
Unfortunately other file apps have their own limitations. But I would change to another that allows multiple presentations on one computer if I could.kiwi999
Broken iCloud integration
The latest update seems to know little about saving documents in the iPadOS/iOS/macOS Files app (iCloud storage). All on its own, Office moved a file I frequently modify from Files into iPad-local storage. No notice or warning was given—I just happened to notice 2 copies of the file present in Recents. One copy is the latest version and stored locally and can’t be migrated to Files. The other copy was a week old, from just before this Office update which makes claims about protecting personal documents from being saved in the cloud. Sheesh. How does a bug this bad get released, except that Microsoft doesn’t care much about Apple users?Show lessBiox
What else is there?
What else are you gonna use that’s free? No ads or nagging to buy. Microsoft are very forgiving in this regard. Opens all known document formats, native or not. I basically use this as a connector from other file explorer apps to edit documents on the fly. It is better than anything else at doing this. Strangely I have started using PowerPoint as a method of storing notes. Go figure. It has the tendency to crash when jumping in and out of it frequently to copy and paste content and when reopening, has not saved the most recent changes you were working on. That’s annoying. But good on Microsoft for the hard work trying to fit an office environment that is feature rich into a tiny little window.Show lessWWWobbly
This app is aweful
I had a problem weeks ago with Excel when the “autosave” feature didn’t save approximately 30 mins of my work. It was the first week I started using my iPad Pro 2021, and I was not used to the workflow, so I thought it was something I had not appropriately configured.
In the following days, I kept using the app, and the autosave behaved inconsistently; sometimes, it saved changes and other times, once I touched back and re-opened the file, most changes were not there.
Today I lost almost 3 hours of work on Word; it didn’t save anything, not even a single line. Once I tried to open the file again, I realised it was a version from August 2, 10 days ago. I did my research and found out that many people have complained about this even found some comments from 2018 on the Microsoft help page. It is unbelievable that this kind of thing happens, it makes no sense to pay for Office 365 and chose iPad and office suite as an alternative to PC if you can’t rely on your work to be saved, please don’t launch productivity apps if there are not ready it can affect peoples lives.Show lessCamhtri
Ok but can’t run two instances side by side - glaring issue!
Really like the idea of bringing everything together into one hub for all your key office documents and, generally speaking, things work very well. Unfortunately on my 2020 iPad Pro it won’t allow me to run two instances side by side - e.g. so I could have two word docs in split view or a word doc and an excel doc in split view. This is a MAJOR shortcoming - meaning that you can only ever work on one office doc at a time. The standalone apps DO allow this - strange that they wouldn’t allow this same functionality for this app as, if it did have this, I would replace my standalone apps with this one in a heartbeat…Show lessNallas Gazeby
Too many missing features, too much OneDrive
Modern iPads are equivalent in power to Macs, which makes it disappointing that while the UI for Office is generally well thought through, many standard functions are missing. Excel can’t remove duplicates, for some reason. Word can’t track changes without displaying deleted text, for some reason. You can’t select text in Word using a trackpad, for some reason.
The main reason for the low rating is, however, this: despite the fact that I’m paying a subscription already, Microsoft is determined to have me save everything on their cloud platform for reasons which I’m sure are completely innocent. Everything is “save to OneDrive”, “duplicate to OneDrive”. Saving a document to iCloud, or even just locally, has unnecessary extra steps added just to push the user towards OneDrive. It’s a service I don’t need, it makes the app more difficult to operate, and it’s annoying.Show lessA Buckley
