Open multiple documents (simultaneously)
I'd like the ability to open multiple documents at the same time, so I can switch easily between them. When switching from one document to another it closes the current one and it takes loading time to open the other doc (which isn't workable in a meeting).
With something like tabs you can easily switch...
Arno Doornbos
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Thanks for your request and votes. We are working on this feature for Word on iPadOS.
-Akshay Bakshi
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Anonymous
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Same issue!!!! Please fix!!!! This is the worst thing ever, makes the app completely useless!
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Dom
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Agreed, it often looks as though Microsoft want to hold back their iOS and Mac versions to persuade people not to buy them. This is a very important feature Microsoft, please make it happen.
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Mase
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Can’t believe this feature hasn’t been developed yet. As a professor and business professional I love everything about the apple iPad but it doesn’t help me actually do my work when I need to use Microsoft office products. It’s a shame.
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Anonymous
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iPad Great (Could one day replace a laptop).. The only thing pulling it back is iOS.
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Anonymous
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Dear MSFT,
I have grown up as a ful PC loyalist, but now have transformed into an Apple hardware fan. This being said, I will never cease to be a MSFT document software loyalist.Actually, “I think” that I will never cease to use MSFT document software; because if the MSFT document applications are not updated to allow 2 docs being opened simultaneousley, I might have to move onto the Apple document softwares, which honestly I do not want to.
Please please, for the sake of your loyalists, update your apps to enable simultaneous document work.
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Pete Made
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It aint never happening as Microsoft want you to buy the Surface and not the iPad. As for Apple offering this in numbers or pages, you'd think such a smart company can work out how to substantially increase sales of tablets. Offer great hardware with half baked software??? Great recipe to kill sales. Stock price is now reflecting the fall back beyond phones isn't cutting it.
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DebiLynne
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This has been under review since August 2017...? Is it really that difficult to accomplish...?
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Jason R
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make this happen MS. This would really allow Word, Excel, PP on the iPad be a true business platform.
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Stikoun
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I need this feature desperately. I think there must be many people who need it. Translators (like me), people who read one document and make notes in another one, people who need to compare two documents, the list goes on. Please, pretty please!
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ST
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I don't think it is a Microsoft issue, Can you open two Pages at the same time? No, so, I think it is an Apple problem that you can multitask different apps, but not within the same app. Microsoft for Mac could have had the side by side option as it has for a Windows version, however, even without that, we should be able to open two documents separately on Ipad as you do on apple laptop. Why is it so difficult I don't understand.
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Anonymous
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Getting used to my new iPad Pro and discovered that opening more than one document a time whether word or other is not available. This truly is a challenge for using the iPad for work. Very unfortunate as I would have thought it was a “no brainer” to have this available to users.
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anonymous
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It's boggling to me that only one doc can be opened at a time. My new Pro is useless when I writing and need to draw on other documents. And, yeah, I'm wasting my time writing this.
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Fjordstrøm commented
lol @ "This is a failing of the iPad" below... This is something Microsoft has to add to the app, not Apple.
For now, an alternative is opening one document in Pages and the other in Word. I've commented here earlier and still hope either one of them will add this function to the iPad.
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Anonymous
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Word for iPad desperately needs this function. I’m a business user, travel extensively and use my tablet as much as I use my desktop. I’m on an iPad Pro now, but will switch back to a laptop or MS Surface this Fall 2018 if not rectified. For business professionals, this is a failing of the iPad.
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Anonymous
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Drag yourself out of the 1980s Microsoft. Pathetic.
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Anonymous
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Microsoft moron **** losers need to fix this.
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Anonymous
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I quite agree. Split screen in word, being a teacher, would be really useful in both lessons and planning. Let’s hope that this comes to fruition
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Matthew Benedict
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This feature has been requested since 2016. Luckily, iOS 11 has come to the rescue last year. You can open one document in Word and another in Google Docs or Pages and then use Multitasking to view them both at once. It’s not perfect, but it works. Hope this helps until this feature is added!
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Matthew Benedict
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It is obvious it has taken a long time. While we wait, we can open one document in Word and another document in Pages, and then open them both at once via Split View, etc. I know it’s not the perfect solution, but it’s something that is at least possible for iPad at this moment.
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Herb
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Please please please add this feature. My iPad Pro is needs to have the capability of two Word Docs, Excel sheets, or PowerPoint files being open to be an effective platform. Thanks!