The app is relatively easy to use and its layout is clean and simple. Word's toolbar at the top lets you do things like change the typeface of fonts and size, highlight text and customize margins and columns. You can also insert page breaks and pictures from your
iPad's camera roll or photo stream. There's also a nice selection of compatible fonts to choose from -even Wingdings, if you like that sort of thing.
In order to cut and paste and make other changes to text in Word, you have to tap twice on the area you want to update, which brings up a set of scrolling bars, much like in other iOS applications. You can move the bars to select text, then cut copy or paste the selection. It's a little cumbersome and slow, but pretty easy to figure out.
Sadly, the iPad version lacks the speedy keyboard shortcuts of Office's Mac and PC versions.
One nice feature is a built-in AutoSave function, which can be disabled if you're worried about data usage. There's also a basic spell checker, with those familiar red and green lines to warn you of potential mistake, but no thesaurus.
