The only hint of trouble was a warning that some fonts weren’t supported – even though the document used only staples such as Calibri and Cambria. In our tests, Pages made an absolute car crash of an image- and table-heavy report produced in Word 2013, but Word for iPad preserved it beautifully. Word for iPad shows its real power when opening heavily formatted documents created on a PC. The PC-like bounding boxes and handles work well enough, although we prefer the pinch-to-zoom and rotate facilities in Apple’s Pages app. Inserting photos or shapes into documents is simple, and Word for iPad automatically reflows text around images as you move or resize them. This is disappointing, and undermines Microsoft’s promise to preserve formatting no matter what device you’re working on. There’s a wide selection of fonts, too – although some of these aren’t included with Office for Windows, and will get substituted when you open your document in Word 2013. There are 15 templates to choose from when creating a new document, and even if you’re starting from a blank canvas, there are enough tools to make documents look smart. Once you get going, however, that feeling dies away. Some adaptation to the smaller screen was obviously necessary, but with no way to insert fixtures such as SmartArt, charts or drop caps, some may feel cheated. The bustling ribbon interface we’re used to has been downsized to just five tabs with a handful of options in each.
MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2019 WINDOWS
At first glance, Word looks awfully pared back compared to the Windows version.