August 2018: the latest version of Word for iOS freezes on my iPad after a while when using the search feature. It is not possible to exit the search mode and you are not able to scroll anymore. The only exit seems to be a hard exit (i.e. kiling the application and restarting. This is very annoying and needs to be fixed urgently. I was able to replicate the flaw multiple times.

Table boundaries do not show up on documents when not inside Word. So what you see is not what you get. Please correct bug

The Word apps, downloaded from Apple and Android stores respectively, recognize a different file format and because of that, there are slips of sentences in the next pages, causing clutter, page augmentation, etc. It would be very useful if this discrepancy is resolved, so that there are no differences on the same file, whatever the device or operating system used.

Productivity and research

If you create simple macros on Windows or Mac it doesn't work on Ipad
(go to Summary on a long document for example)

I purchased an iPad Pro to upgrade from my old MacBook Pro, BUT there is no mail merge in word for the iPad. This is a disaster as I am unable to print any certificates. I am going to have to return the iPad for a refund and cancel my Office 365

Assignments have a word count cap and its important to be able to view word count of a page or highlighted text as we can do on desktop

Today people are using ipad or tablet for work. So it will be very helpfull if all the function in microsoft words for laptop is SAME with the ipad/tablet. For example: the ADVANCE find and replace function — it is very usefull for text editing purpose. Please please please improve the microsoft words for ipad/tablet!

Allow us to create our own customizable default “Blank page/template”
with our own default font style, color, margins size etc. - which gets saved into the same area as all the other templates - so we don’t have to customize the current “Blank page/template” each and every time we start a new document. Just like changing the default “normal template.docx” in the full Word version.

Also please add shading of text (I don’t mean highlighting) + a toggle to permanently see the ruler and set it to in inches. Thank you for your help.

I opened a word doc that was attached to an email and started editing it. When I went to exit the doc after I had finished everything, there was no option to save it, and I lost a whole night’s work on an assignment due tomorrow. I am furious! I see this bug has been around for 2 years, and Microsoft have not fixed it. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_imobile-msoversion_other/edits-lost-in-word-for-ipad-on-document-opened/d5cbaf6c-0500-4fea-9862-b37f8f4722cd

I contacted Microsoft support, and they told me that there is no way to set the paper size of a document when using Word for iPad or iPhone. It would be useful to have that ability so that when you send a person the document you created via Word on an iPhone or iPad, the document would print out in the correct size and formatting.

IPad office apps allows access to Dropbox files but only if there is an internet connection. With Dropbox you can save files onto your iPad. It would be great to be able to work with these files in the Office Apps while in aeroplane or if there is no internet connection

It would be great to have Ingush spelling dictionary available for download from Microsoft official resources.

Include option to include vertical ruler. It doesn’t make sense just to have horizontal ruler only!

Please allow the ability to customize a border in a table.

Please add the manage sources and bibliography insert for iPad.

If a sentence is

"Word word word. – Word word word."

Then Microsoft Words spell checker wants the word after the dash not capitalized. But this is the case only with a dash in, not a dash after a sentence.

I can't get sound when immersive reader is playing in Word for Ipad. Any suggestions?