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Are you ready for another big freeze? This guide can help you pick a portable power station. Meat delivery! Top Texas spots that will ship brisket, beef and more to your door Member Exclusive. Google is notorious for this, sometimes taking a year or more to have their productivity apps take advantage of standard iOS functionality. Microsoft is doing a bit better here, but as mentioned already, they really intend for you to do things the Microsoft way, not necessarily the iOS way.
You can use Word in a thin window on the side of your iPad or make it use the full It also supports drag-and-drop which was introduced in iOS Files Integration: Another nice element is that Word interacts with the native Files interface, so if you have a document saved to iCloud but want to open it in Word, it is easy to do. Similarly, all Office documents in the Files app are configured to open in their respective Office apps.
Poor Files Integration: On the more negative side, that Files integration is a little surface-level, as you can open documents from any Files-integrated service, but you need to manually update the file from Word, as Word will not update the document in-line like most other writing apps allow.
This is going to make the experience drastically different for those using OneDrive and those using something like Dropbox for document storage. Again, this app is better the more you are willing to embrace the full Microsoft experience. Keyboard Shortcuts: Another limitation is in regards to keyboard support.
Keyboard shortcuts in desktop apps can make you feel like a productivity god, and recently these have become more prominent and expected on the iPad. Apps like Things 3 have set a high bar for what you can do from a keyboard on the iPad, and Word falls incredibly short here.
Microsoft has a complex history with Word on non-Windows devices. They have usually reserved the best version of the app to Windows, with the Mac version lagging years behind. And on some other occasions they have oddly had the Mac version more up to date than their Windows version. It had always been a weird dance to see which version was best, as it seemed like the two versions were made by totally different teams who shared a design document, but never spoke to each other.
All of the core Word functionality can be found in each of these apps, including the iPad, but some things are still left behind. Streamlined UI: The iPad has a much more streamlined UI, which will make some people happy and make other people find this app to be totally useless. Where you land on that spectrum is entirely based on how much power you demand from your word processor.
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