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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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!
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Anonymous
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It is insane you can’t do this. What is the point?
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Lucy
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Please make this work. I hate having to go back and forth and wish I had a laptop for school instead!!
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Александр Иванов commented
I have an iPad Pro and standart PC. Please add this feature so I'll throw out my PC at last. This feature is the only thing why I still use my old PC!
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Anonymous
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As I grad student, I often have two word documents open when working on papers (a working draft and a final draft).
I am shocked that this is not a word option for the ipad pro.
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Anonymous
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Ditto on everyone’s comments and need to have Word (and other MS products) open multiple documents on the iPad Pro. IAnnotate has managed this. Why can’t you?
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Anonymous
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Until I can open multiple docs simultaneously on my iPad Pro it will never replace my laptop. When is this happening Microsoft?
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Anonymous
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Me too!! Anything you could do to improve this would be huge, huge, huge!
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Hansi
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And to compare two word files. Sometimes people don’t use track changes function but instead save as a new file, when that happens I’d use compare function to see what edits are made. Please add this function to IOS word.
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Hansi
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I would also like to have the function to compare two different word files on my iPad, in addition to being able to open multiple files at the same time