Office for iPad slow typing

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).

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.

Now December 2014. 

We have not heard from you, Mr. Moderator.

You still there ?

The problem persists and it's a show stopper unfortunately for our company.

I'm wondering the same thing myself NiniReyes.

A month ago a mod sent me a private message wanting more details & a sample document etc and I've heard nothing back since that time.

Not good enough MicroSoft!

Apologies for not getting back sooner, the issue is still being looked into.