I was surprised by that too. The name of the app is text editor. It’s $.99. 
Pretty simple, but it does let you read an edit.
Cheers,
Donna

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> On Dec 23, 2019, at 10:50 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
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>    You made progress. What is the exact name of the paid app? I may want to 
> give it a go too. I am somewhat surprised that there is not a native TextEdit 
> for iOS.
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>> On 12/23/2019 5:53 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>> Hi, ET,
>> I download it yesterday. I found two apps with similar names, one was free, 
>> and one was $.99. I downloaded them both. The free version seemed to show a 
>> lot of the text coding, so I didn’t really care for that. The $.99 version 
>> seems to give me a nice view of my RTF document and it looks very workable. 
>> Based on what I’ve seen so far I recommend it. I imagine that will be my 
>> solution to this problem.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 11:30 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Donna,
>>>   Does TextEditor work for you? I have not had a chance to really work with 
>>> it but it is in iCloud Drive so is accessible to Windows, Mac and iDevices.
>>> 
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>>>> On 12/22/2019 7:47 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>>>> Hi Gabe,
>>>> Thank you for the suggestion. What I’m trying to avoid is having to export 
>>>> the file back-and-forth between pages and word multiple times. I switch 
>>>> back-and-forth frequently between Mac iPad and PC, so I’m trying to 
>>>> minimize the number of times I have to convert the file to one from one 
>>>> format to another. Thanks anyway, though.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Donna
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Gabe Griffith <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Donna,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've never tried exporting a file from my phone but in Pages on the Mac 
>>>>> you can export a file to many different formats including MS Word. This 
>>>>> is what I use any time I'm going to need to work on a file using a 
>>>>> computer or other device that supports Word files but not Pages. I know 
>>>>> it's a bit more tedious than just being able to creat the file in Word in 
>>>>> the first place but once you get used to it it really only takes a few 
>>>>> extra seconds.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gabe
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from Gabe's iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 1:36 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How irritating! AmI really the only person in the world who wants to 
>>>>>> work on a document on a PC a Mac and an iPad, but doesn’t want to pay 
>>>>>> for office 365? Can’t tell you how much I hate Microsoft right now. That 
>>>>>> said, I suppose Apple could create a version of pages for windows, but 
>>>>>> since that has never happened, it doesn’t seem likely to in the future. 
>>>>>> Oh well, thanks for responding.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Brad Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There is not a stand alone version of MS Word for iOS.
>>>>>>> The only way to use it is to sign-in with a paid Office365 account 
>>>>>>> UserID and password.  Access to the iOS apps is part of the 
>>>>>>> subscription package.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /- Brad -/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 14:37, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>>>>>>> <[email protected] 
>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anyone using MS Word on their iPhone or iPad? I just downloaded it, and 
>>>>>>> it keeps prompting me to sign in to edit documents. I can’t believe 
>>>>>>> Microsoft will give me access to Office 365 for free, so do not want to 
>>>>>>> create an account. Does anyone know if you can download a stand-alone 
>>>>>>> version of Word for iPad or iPhone?
>>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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