How can I save a Word document to my iPad?

Please start your own thread if you're having issues with Copy/Paste. Hijacking threads is rude and disrespectful.

Here is some help with your issue of direspect, google docs can be used on iPad for free I might add, with it you can write word docs and send to emai

And edit all u want.apple has not been able to **** up that function, sorry for a bit of your disrespect function here. I enjoy using google docs as a word processor on a tablet, hope it does not bother u, but apple provides no function in this area, hope that your fantasy world of disrespect one day comes true, but I rather believe that the iPad stock will sink as others have, when next year all the android devices flood the arket and apple is once again wonderin what happenned, please excuse the rude commas, but there is no back key, so can not erase, I work at apple headquarters, if you want to know th truth, but have never been much into cult fashion or taking a drink to kill off all members etc,, please note I have turned off all gps function, so don't try to find me. Ah th period, it can be usefull, now let me update you on the area of disrespect...disrespect is carrying out mass murder in Iraq and Afghanistan and firing phosphorous off of ships into civilian areas and supplying countries with those weeps and I saw the us factory myself, so I don't really give a **** about your myopic veiws of thread disrespect about iPod. And I don't really give **** if this post gets me kicked off of all apple forums, sorry to end with a comma,

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Your a joke. You blame apple and the ipad for not knowing how to work it. Steve jobs could have been wrong. In your case the Ipad should have came with the manual. You work at apple then huh? The janitor? Then you go about attacking the united states, but live in the USA working for apple..HMMMMM

BTW there is a back key. Its located in the same place as the first keyboard to appear for all computers. Or touch where you want to drop the cursor. 🙂 Have a nice day.

You can sync your documents via iTunes, iDisk, iWork Beta or another WebDAV server. Everything is explained in Help/Share documents.

PS. That is true, if you have Pages on your iPad. Otherwise, you can only use Email.

This has nothing to do with syncing. What you are seeking to do cannot be done on the iPad.

Stop and think about what you are asking and think of the very same thing in terms of doing this on a computer. If you don't have Word or a word processing application on your computer that can read the file - what good is having the email attachment. How do you read word processing files on your computer? Does the computer need a compatible app?

I know you can save the file to your desktop or a folder somewhere on your hard drive - but you still can't read the file without an app that is compatible with that file. The only difference between the iPad and the computer is that the iPad does not have a file saving structure that you seek. You save the file right in the app itself. You want a free solution - that's the problem.

it's not a free app, but ReaddleDocs allows you to save documents.

http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs_ipad/

I know it's an editing app but i also use Documents to Go

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/documents-to-go-office-suite/id317117961?mt=8

and it also has an independant file syncing program that allows you to sync documents, wirelessly, from your device to your computer without going through iTunes.

You can open word doc on any computer then use save as: PDF when you have done this email PDF doc to email address you use on iPad and open attachment then click in area of document and the open in iBooks option will appear click this and your done. Free and easy : )

Yes!! Thanks frankie3863.

This is exactly the trick I needed! I needed a way to read (just read, not write) a Word doc while on vacation in remote areas. Logging into my email and viewing the document would not be possible since there would be no internet.

Hi Lemonlover

You have a similar problem to me. I think. I want to type up a trip itinerary and somehow get it into my ipad that i am taking.

ok, i have a kindle account ap because my wife also has a kindle. This is a key item.

When you open your kindle ap, you see the books you have purchased to read. They are in the ipad and the kindle.

At the top of the bar, it says: all items books newsstand Docs

open Docs

You will see your personal kindle email address to send documents to from your source, ie mac or pc documents,

send a email with your document attached to your personal kindle email address.

You will get a email from Amazon welcoming you. Open that email, click on manage my kindle

You will see your document above the books you have bought. Go to right side of this line, open tab, click on

send to my ipad.

Done, it appears in the Docs section and with the books under all items tab.

I sent a receipe to myself to test it. It is there.

The other way is to go to www.amazon.com, search manage my kindle, and you will be in the same place.

The only negative is the kindle thing, i don't know if you can have a kindle account with out a kindle. I would think you could. They want to sell Kindle books at Amazon. I didn't try the pdf/ ibooks thing, but that was next.

This i found by experimenting with the ipad.

Hope it helps

Mike

I take your point about being off topic but the point itself about being able to turn of the copy function is not do to my Nottingham knowing to place my finger to the side and many many agree. The standard answer to Complaints is similar to yours. The problem is th user. Apple is perfect. If you think I am to critical try reading free open boards where people ca express real opinions. This forum you might note has a lot of space on the right, but many have none and the cut and paste is automatically selected.

Islandofsand wrote:

please note I have turned off all gps function, so don't try to find me.

Why would I want to find you?

I think Google docs is a great thing but still don't really like the way it performs on a touch screen. Apple's own Pages or Documents to Go still work better for me. For PDF readers/viewers, I like PDF Expert.

You can use Dropbox. They have free cloud storage and a free iPad app. It's the easiest way to share / save documents.