All the Microsoft Office for iPad apps are wonderful and have great potential for business users. This should be a 5-star app and the gold standard for Office apps for iPad. #1. Unfortunately Microsoft chose to cripple this app by not allowing users to "Open In" other apps with full fidelity. This should be a no-brainer for Microsoft. It is favoring its OneDrive cloud storage over app flexibility. Apple learned this lesson early on with its iWork suite and scrambled to get ahead of its competition to the point of reworking its OS to allow users to open their documents in other apps. I expected much better from Microsoft than to have to resort to emailing documents to myself one at a time, no less. PDF conversion is nice but it doesn't go far enough. #2. What about a true folder system in the local iPad storage like the one that's available in OneDrive. Nudging users to OneDrive is not the answer even though Office 365 is required to unlock full capabilities. The $100 per year would be a lot less painful if I could have full Office capability. #3. The View menu in all apps is not a true View menu with full formatting capabilities including vertical and horizontal line spacing customization, and the other formatting capabilities that come with the desktop apps. #4. Where is Visio? If Microsoft is appealing to the business user then a standalone Visio app is a must. Not everyone can use Azure for business use and having Visio would make Microsoft Office for iPad truly formidable. Microsoft, you have a long way to go.

After the most recent update, Excel became unusable. When I open a file, the cursor doesn’t appear and I can’t edit any cells at all. I have to completely close the app and reopen it, and only then does it work — but not always. This issue started right after the icon changed, so it’s clearly from the latest update. Please fix this as soon as possible because Excel is an essential tool, and right now it’s impossible to use for data entry or editing.Después de la actualización más reciente, Excel se volvió inutilizable. Cuando abro un archivo, el cursor no aparece y no puedo editar ninguna celda. Tengo que cerrar completamente la aplicación y volver a abrirla, y solo entonces funciona, aunque no siempre. Este problema comenzó justo después de que cambió el ícono, así que claramente viene de la última actualización. Por favor solucionen esto lo antes posible, porque Excel es una herramienta esencial y ahora mismo es imposible usarla para ingresar o editar datos.

This app is was awesome, I mean it was the best thing since sliced bread until; fresh new data via desktop was uploaded, and then deleted.I uploaded a ton of new clients to my potential prospects list, saved the information, and then behold; as I opened the app on my iPad, the app automatically opened my most previous file, which was my prospects list. The data was old data, previous data that does not have my updated info. And to top it off the autosave was on, OH MY GOD, I prayed that I was just in another file or something, no I was not. All of my new data was deleted because the app must be stuck on stupid or something. Ok, I thought this is my fault it won’t happen again, now here I am on a brand new day and the same thing happened. How? Because I switched AUTOSAVE off before I closed the app. However, when the app resets, autosave automatically activates. So beware, you could be on your last breathe, bottom dollar or ramen noodle diet or whatever. Trying to send feedback is highly inconvenient when you are limited to 24 hours in a day. And even if you do ask Microsoft for help, they will not reply. As for I have sent them multiple messages, with no response. I guess I gotta go to their Facebook, Twitter etc and expose them for the rich lazy types they’ve become so comfortable with as we give them our hard earned cash. Essentially, within conclusion I repeat “AUTOSAVE CANNOT BE PERMANENTLY SWITCHED OFF, AND IF YOU CHERISH YOUR HARD EARNED DATA, SAVE IT MULTIPLE TIMES AWAY FROM THIS APP.”Smh @ Microsoft, no wonder Apple surpassed you guys, GL.

I have to build work-arounds in the Ipad version of Excel. The most aggravating one being the fact that I have to be logged into my account in Excel even to work offline. I have to work around that by putting my Ipad in airplane mode. It is not appropriate that the Excel user who chooses the portability of the Ipad should be logged into an online account in order to use the product. And with every new iteration of Microsoft’s renewed user agreement, I grow more suspicious of Microsoft’s encroachment into my privacy. I do not have the time to read the minutia of the dozen pages of legalese. My choices are accept what ever new level of data privacy I am surrendering to Microsoft or don’t use the product. For this reason, I am presently learning Apple’s Number’s program. Once I get used to the loss of functionality Numbers may not have over Excel, I plan to abandon Excel altogether. I realize that there may be limitations on the Ipad version of Excel due to copyright, intellectual property agreements, and patent infringements between Microsoft and Apple, but these petty rivalries only make Microsoft look worse. And it does not excuse Microsoft from not making a fully functional version of Excel that can be used on the Ipad.