Retaining Formatting of Word Docs

Is there not a single app that will not strip out all or most of the formatting in Word docs opened through Dropbox? I spend a lot of time generating complex documents with a lot of formatting, and nothing I have tried preserves the formatting on the iPad, regardless of what app I use to open them. I had great hopes for Docs to Go, and then great hopes for Quick Office, but, alas, neither preserves my Word formatting. Do any of you know of any existing app or anything on the horizon that will preserve my formatting. It's becoming a headache to reformat on the iPad.

Nothing remotely available as yet. On Microsoft's Office web site it says, under system requirements for Office 2007, that it needs 256MB of RAM (check) and at least a 500 MHz processor (check again). So I guess that technically there doesn't seem to be a reason it wouldn't be able to be made to work on the iPad (of course, MS would have to completely rewrite it and they never kept up with their Mac version, let alone the iPad). Unless the iPad base comes to exceed the Mac base (and it well may), I wouldn't expect MS to make that effort. Even then, they still might just say, why bother? We still have the nine hundred gazillion PC computers it works on now.
I'm thinking that if the clamoring gets so loud about this (and it probably will), then Apple's going to have to do something to address it. They may just have to write such an app themselves. The iPad only just came out, so we really should give it some time. And, as has been said before here, it was never billed as a laptop. It really is more like a glorified PDA (but oh, that glory!). So right now if you want to work on your heavily formatted Word documents, don't leave your laptop at home just yet.

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