Big problem in opening word documents in Pages (iWork) ipad

Hi I study in UNI so I mostly have to open .doc documents from my Uni website but 95% times the .doc files doesn't open properly sometimes even half of the file stuff is just missing even using pages app from iWork. Any suggestion ?. Or ipad is t a waste of money for Uni stuff ?.? I have also tried other apps from App Store but none of them works properly.

LeopardBoy wrote:
Or ipad is t a waste of money for Uni stuff
I would never recommend an iPad for any serious Uni education. You must have a laptop or other machine that can run things like MS Word most likely being used by the people grading your work. Even for secondary education an iPad is very limiting in my view.

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