LEGAL PLEADINGS IN IPAD - Formatting mucked up!!!!!!

You're only talking to other users here, not to Apple. Tell them here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages_ipad.html

http://www.apple.com/feedback

We're all basically just your fellow users here.

Meanwhile, you might instead look into one of the other document apps that can read Microsoft Office formats. Documents To Go is one that gets good reviews, and says that it supports Word footnotes and endnotes.

Regards.

Pages deleted the footnotes and completely mucked up the formatting, spacing, indentations.

Apple tells you about the changes that will occur here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4065

I too am looking at the ipad as a legal accessory. The lack of formatting etc. is unsatisfactory. However, in place of a legal notepad for submissions it is superb. There must be some way of getting around its limitations - come on apple or third party developers - to ensure that it can be used properly. What we need is a decent forum group etc. (by the way, I am in the UK, not US)

I also use an iPad in my law practice. It's possible to get work done on it, but it's kind of cludgy. I create docs on my desktop PC at the office and upload them to DropBox. Then I open them in Documents to Go, which allows me to edit them, etc. Preserves the hard formatting in Word docs drafted on the PC. I haven't opened a doc with footnotes this way yet, but when I get to work I'll give it a go and report. The main benefit is having all of one's docs in one place. Life should be easier when multi-tasking becomes available.

NONE of the apps on the iPad preserve complex Word formatting. I have every major app (Documents to Go, Office Squared, Quickoffice, Pages) that purport to convert Word docs and edit/work with them. None of them retain 100% of the formatting. The only way to get a 100% accurate reproduction of such docs is to first convert them to PDF on your laptop and then transfer them onto your iPad via Dropbox, or a similar cloud/transfer app.

If you then want to highlight or annotate your PDF version of these docs, use iAnnotate or ReaddleDocs. Works great.

I just uploaded a motion in Word from my office PC to DropBox and opened it in both Docs to Go and Pages. Footnotes were gone in both apps. Much of the formatting was retained in D2G, but most of it was gone in Pages.

The PDF option is fine if you're not planning on editing. Pity there is not an app that will preserve all of the formatting in Word docs.