IOS 7.1 facing cannot open doc, dox, pptx

More details please. What app are you using to try to open the files. Where did the files come from?

All of the "Office" document editing applications on the iPad have limitations. Best try them out to see if they meet your needs.

Free apps

Apple iWork

iWork by Apple -- free with newly purchased iPads

• Keynote
  How to compose PowerPoint presentations that are compatible with iPad Keynote presentations. http://www.pchelps.com/2011/06/from-pc-to-ipad-creating-presentations-that-work/ #comment-2234
• Numbers
• Pages

http://www.imore.com/how-get-all-iwork-apps-iphoto-and-imovie-free-eligible-ipho ne-or-ipad

iWork for iCloud Beta

https://www.apple.com/iwork-for-icloud/

Citrix ShareFile QuickEdit

"Is the simplest document-editing tool available for iOS devices. Open, view, create and edit Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® files — right from your iPod®, iPhone® or iPad®!" Was Office² HD.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id364361728?mt=8

Kingsoft Office

"Read, edit PowerPoint files, and read Word documents on your iPhone or iPad, Share it by cloud storage."

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/office-free-ios

Microsoft Office

Microsoft read only apps for Excel, Powerpoint and Word. To edit, you need a subscription.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-excel-for-ipad/id586683407?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-powerpoint-for-ipad/id586449534?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-word-for-ipad/id586447913?mt=8

Quickoffice

Quickoffice is an application available for iOS and Android tablets and phones that lets you view, create, and edit Microsoft Office, as well as view and annotate PDF files. Connect Google Drive to Quickoffice for cloud storage so that you can easily access and edit files from your tablet, phone, or computer and know that your files are always up-to-date

https://support.google.com/quickoffice/answer/2986862?hl=en&ref_topic=2986859

CloudOn

Client front end to a Microsoft Office running on a server

"CloudOn brings Microsoft Office® to your iPhone & iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive accounts." Free for a give number of documents.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudon/id474025452?mt=8

Paid

DocsToGo

• VIEW/EDIT/CREATE Word & Excel files(Office 2007/2008/2010)

• VIEW PowerPoint, PDF, iWork, Text, .RTF, and more!

• Send & receive attached supported documents using the built-in Mail app

• FREE desktop application with your purchase! Compatible on Win & Mac allows you 2-way file sync with a WIFI connection.

• Open & Edit files within DocsToGo from any 3rd party app that supports the “Open In” feature

• Supports iTunes File Sharing via USB cable for manually moving files

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

Thanks to Texas Mac Man for pointing to this link.

"Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite and Documents To Go These two apps share an important feature: unlike Numbers, they can open, edit, and save an Excel spreadsheet without stripping out any data or formatting, even though they can’t display or edit all the existing information; spreadsheets can make the round trip from Mac to iPad and back safely, without losing anything."

http://www.macworld.com/article/1159958/ipadspreadsheet.html

Office 365

Office Mobile for iPhone requires a qualifying Office 365 subscription

* Edit - You can make quick edits to Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

* Documents Remain Intact - Formatting and content remain intact when you edit Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents on your phone.

* Edit While Offline - Your device doesn’t have to be continuously connected to the network to work on an Office document that is stored online. You can view and edit recently used documents even while you’re offline. Your changes will be saved online when your device reconnects to the network or to Wi-Fi.

* Create – You can create new Word and Excel documents on your phone.

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/office-mobile-for-office-365/id541164041?mt=8

Hazeware

Run Windows 7 and Microsoft Office off of a cloud computer.

https://hazeware.com/

It's or similiar to the issue with Microsoft exchange and IOS 7.1.x. This problem showed up in 7.1. See work-arounds listed here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5992793?tstart=0

Use dropbox instead.

Resend the files to a gmail account and download from gmail. I have not read of any problems using a gmail account. Other than once the files touches an ipad, it may become corrupted. You need to send the file from the source to your gmail account.

Windows File server

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8

Using iTunes to transfer files:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4094?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

"Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."

http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en

http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

For what it is worth, you can install box on one of your servers.

Another possible solution... < I'd be surprised. >

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6122577?answerId=25616777022#25616777022

Here are the places to report bugs:

Get an account at

http://developer.apple.com/ then submit a bug report to http://bugreporter.apple.com/

Developers:

"Submitting Bugs and Feedback

Your feedback goes a long way towards making our products even better. With Apple Bug Reporter, you can submit bug reports or request enhancements to APIs and developer tools."

https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

Enterprise support:

Call enterprise support (866) 752-7753 to create a case ID number

go to bottom of the mail click "download full message"

then click back the attachment

Have you tried turnning your computer off and on again?

Hi everybody, all what you have to do is to hook your device to the power and the file will open. I know it's to good to be true but tray it because I wes seafaring for along time from the same problem and the same Ms Word file attachment that could not open suddenly opened whin I've connected my iPad to the power.

I also have the same problem. I always used to be able to open them without a problem - AlKindyb what use is an ipad if you have to always hook up to power I use my ipad for work and need to be mobile. This is a recent problem and so fustrating.

shemary wrote:

I also have the same problem. I always used to be able to open them without a problem - AlKindyb what use is an ipad if you have to always hook up to power I use my ipad for work and need to be mobile. This is a recent problem and so fustrating.

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 Cheers, Tom 😉

I far as I know, this problem has not been solved 😮.

Best place to follow this situation is here:

iOS 7.1 Exchange PDF viewing

Try deleting your exchange account the re-defining.

Try what work-arounds you can. Use dropbox. For pdf, try goodread with dropbox.

Here are the places to report bugs:

Get an account at

http://developer.apple.com/ then submit a bug report to http://bugreporter.apple.com/

Developers:

"Submitting Bugs and Feedback

Your feedback goes a long way towards making our products even better. With Apple Bug Reporter, you can submit bug reports or request enhancements to APIs and developer tools."

https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

Enterprise support:

Call enterprise support (866) 752-7753 to create a case ID number

Robert

Hello I was having the same problems when trying to open PPT or PPTX files from iOS Mail. Just find out that all my email messages where plain text, and this problem occur, when I did choose to transfer the whole email I was able to open the PPT or PPTX in Keynote.