Microsoft Word

In most times, the prompt jumps to the very first line after a few second later whenever I touch the middle of the screen to edit a docx file. This is very annoying since my file is of 98 pages. Then I should pull down the scroll bar to the bottom of the document. This happens very often, especially when in Mobile view. The second thing is about the page loading steps or speed. By moving down the scroll bar the pages are loaded incrementally. But it has too many steps to the bottom page. Scrolling down the bar to the bottom of the screen loads pages a little. I couldn’t find a good way to jump to the bottom page at once. And this happens in Mobile view. The third frustrating thing is the reaction speed is not just slow, it’s really slow. When I type a character, say A, that appears in the screen after about 0.3~0.5s. This issue also has something to do with Mobile view, I think. The fourth is about moving the cursor with a long-touch. This not only related to Word but to all the other Office 365 applications I guess. This app adopting the obsolete way shows a convex glass that zoom-in around the cursor when I long-touch the screen. Apple changed the way it moves the cursor since iOS 13 if I’m right. I’m not gonna explain it in detail here but the new way is much elegant and gives seamless experience in editing the text.

4.5 stars. Excellent app. Currently the best word processor on the market. Continual improvements are super special. One note - as Microsoft continues to add bells and whistles you need to continue to refine access and usability. If I have to go beyond 3 clicks to access a toll then it will become useless rapidly. Always consider use rate in placement and stacking of tools for access. Not to say you don't, just saying that too many buttons and toggles can ruin productivity. Peace.

Makes it easy to use Microsoft from my phone. Sign into OneDrive and I'm able to sync across all of my devices. Sometimes I have problems with it and it's kind of glitchy for some reason. Not always able to see all of the buttons I want to see. Wish it was a little more user friendly for mobile, but still gets the job done.

My voice reader has suddenly gone to a robotic voice and I no longer have the ability to change it to anything else. The only reason I use this app is to have my files read aloud to me so I can work on other projects at the same time. The voice reader has gliched before and a restart normally fixes the issue, but nothing seems to be fixing the problem this time.

I'm going to be as fair as I can. Over the course of a few years of use, there have been times when the app has been stable. Even in that state, there were bugs and annoyances, synch issues especially. Sometime in early September 2022, issues with dark mode and being asked to sign in repeatedly have become major annoyances. For the amount I pay, I feel they should be doing better.

So many bugs. Randomly will put words in while I am typing and mess up the whole sentence. Whenever you tab out of the app for about 10 seconds, it will auto close without saving, then won't save where you were last. As an author of several books that are 200+ pages, it makes me have to continue scrolling down as it slowly loads a single page at a time. I do not recommend this app on mobile, especially if you are thinking about purchasing an account to use it on your phone. WAY too many bugs.

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. :)

The app was working well untill I mistakenly deleted a document I was working on. I could not retrieve my document even with auto save on. I signed into my Microsoft account. So many times it kept bringing me to the same page email : password: in circles. What a pain!I went through for hours 30th to 31st of July was a nightmare for me . Frustrating after entering all passwords and security answers. It kept repeating itself. I cried for my time , my document, setting account stress.its sad.

This program has problems that need to be corrected. It double spaces when it shouldn't. Copy and paste malfunctions ALL the time. Especially on a smartphone. I bought a tablet to see if it does the same thing. So far so good. Andi could go on but I'm going to wait and see. I don't know when I wrote the review above. Never the less, in recent use and an upgrade on my phone Word app has improved. The double space when you begin a new sentence is bothersome but I've been working with it.

The mobile app was quite disappointing. I'm running it on my tablet for convenient note-taking, but there's not a lot of functions. I would appreciate if the developers could incorporate function to set a font style at least so I won't have to struggle with the entire document changing in font when I copy and paste from website, other documents, etc.

I used to swear by MS Word. It was simple and had all the features I needed. It even synced to onedrive so I could move between my computer and tablet so I could work on the go. But I am so disappointed in the mobile app. Basic features are missing, like changing font size with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+>. Other stuff is there but doesn't work reliably, like headers or paragraph settings. It crashes and sometimes it saves my work, other times it freezes and I lose everything. >:(

Ok. So, I used to love Word because I can make stories, and do stuff at school like essays and stuff. One day while I was at my home, my computer died while I was on Word. So then I got my sisters computer and then logged in in my account then went to word. When I went to Word, I saw all my work and essays there! I continued using her computer, but then, IT DIED TOO

the app constantly crashes when using the voice to text feature, specifically when using custom commands like delete last two words. so unless I want to only record without making any changes it works, but otherwise it will just crash to the desktop and lose all unsaved progress. this is a serious problem and the 1 star is temporary until it is fixed.

I came to write this review because I have lost my second document. I would be typing in Word, then it would start lagging to the point where I would have to save the document and then force close out of it. I would open it again, type until I was done, and then save the file again. It’s important to note that not only did I have auto save on while typing, but I also turn it off and manually save my documents before closing the app. This is the second time I’ve discovered that Word lost my data, or just didn’t even save it like it told me it did. I have never had a program say it has saved data, and then turn around and delete it or not actually save it. I thought it was an unfortunate accident the first time it happened, but now that it’s happened again, I’m really irritated. I found another review from AN ENTIRE YEAR AGO where they had this exact same thing happen to them. This issue is such a downer, especially if you’re like me and lose entire essays that take hours to write and edit. I downloaded this app because I grew up with Word and I don’t understand how to use the formatting tools in Google docs. Needless to say, I’ll be looking into that a bit more. This app lags like crazy regardless if your data is lost or not, so I would really consider that before downloading.

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.