Office for iPad slow typing

This problem is driving me crackers & I am so annoyed that Microsoft is staying silent on this & not fixing it.

The problems occur no matter what way you are inputting (through on-screen keyboard or bluetooth keyboard) and as other posters have said the greater the number of fields the greater the problem.

I was roughly timing the input delay yesterday while working with a medium-sized document and it pretty much runs at taking 1 second per character. In other words finish typing a sentence, go do something else for 5 minutes, then come back for the next sentence. Totally unacceptable.

Prior to MS releasing these apps I had to use Documents To Go from DataViz to access my MS documents on my iPad. I NEVER had this problem with their 3rd-party app! How absurd is that?

I'm now seriously considering demanding a refund from MS & going back to using Docs To Go!!!

I had been thinking of suggesting to the national company I work with that we look at deploying Office to all our reps & various road-warriors for use on their iPads but that certainly won't be happening when there are SERIOUS problems like this being ignored by Microsoft.

It is frustrating.  I have numerous forms that I have been using on my iPhone 4S using mobile office with no issues.  Now Mobile Office has been replaced with Word and Excel versions for the iphone.  At first I thought this was a good upgrade, but now any Word form I have with a table isn't usable.  I have to use a different office suite to edit those files now.  The typing lag seems consistent no matter where I have the file stored (locally or any supported cloud service).

When is Microsoft going to wake up and address the multitude of issues with MS Office for iPad!?!  

8 months with no resolution, or even any acknowledgement of these issues is a complete and total abdication of their responsibilities to their customers!  If they were free apps, even then they would be derelict, but given that we have to pay for a "service" that is not being provided it is inexcusable!  

We are completely unable to access our folders and files through the forced "use" of their cloud "non-service", Onedrive.  This makes MS Office for iPad virtually unusable.  The only way we can save any file is just to dump it into a "pile" in Onedrive, without any way of organizing our folders or files for later retrieval.  This is deplorable, no, more than that, criminal, given their total lack of response to hundreds, and likely, thousands of irate customers. 

Aside from that, the apps are horrendously slow.  When I try to type into an app, the time lag before characters show up runs from 3 to 5 seconds after they are typed!  No other app on my iPad acts this way.  

And now, a further issue has surfaced:  when I try to save a file, Word tells me that the file already exists!  No matter what I name the file, it says it already exists!  Just as a test, I named it "boop oop de doo", and it still said it already exists!  The only way I could save my file was naming it: "it does not exist", and even then, it only allowed me to replace the nonexistent file!  

What at is the problem with Microsoft, that they are so incompetent in their total lack of response to their responsibilities!?!

I have been having the same issue as well, It seems to happen more in Word than Excel. Both apps have been updated to the newest version but the problem still persists. The lag does seem to occur less when you save a file locally and edit it, but that really defeats the purpose of using OneDrive and creates extra steps for something that should be much easier. This is very disappointing from Microsoft...I would expect better from them for a product that we are wasting money on.

Not on my side. It's a consistent issue for me.

I should also add that I do not use via cloud, this is with a locally stored document. If this was with a cloud stored document I imagine it would be impossible to use.

I always duplicate documents before I start making changes to them so I guarantee I can open the files even when  I have no access to the Internet. The delay is present regardless of where the file has been saved. But in my case it's intermittent. Last night I was writing notes while observing a class - the reason I bought Office 365 in the first place - and there was no delay! I was working locally with no access to the Internet.