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Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. But for tablet users it's by far the best word processing iPad app there is, and, the more I use it, the more I'm convinced that it's a worthwhile and mature piece of software that deserves a home on the iPad of anyone who writes. The app, which also runs on the iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone, is still missing some features that power users of desktop word processing apps (like me) consider essential. Microsoft keeps improving all of its mobile Office apps unobtrusively, adding features that have long been in the Windows and OS X versions, such as the ability to open files in the OpenDocument format used by the open-source office suites LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Tablets are still far from the ideal platform for word processing from start to finish, but if you have an iPad and you need to edit your documents, Microsoft Word for iOS ($0.00 at ) (Opens in a new window) is your best choice, by far.