Find and Find/Replace no longer work in Microsoft Word for iPad - help!

I have this problem too and I am working on a novel. I have checked that I have fulfilled all of the comments above. Thankfully I have got my documents on One Drive backup, so, while I haven’t lost them, I am having to spend ages finding where I got to with my proof reading without the search function as sometimes the ‘go to last position’ flag that comes up on first open of the document doesn’t come up for me, so I paste a paragraph of where I was at the top of my novel so I can find my place with the find option, which if it isn’t working, am unable to do. I am not pleased as I do subscribe yearly to Microsoft 365, so I am actually paying for Word to be fully working, which, in the UK if a product doesn’t work, we can return it for a full refund. Also, when I highlight a section of text, and the options come up on the ribbon ‘it now says ‘Paste, (gap) Select All, insert’ it used to have ‘copy’ where there is now a gap. If I use the arrow at the right to bring up the menu, there is ‘copy’ in there, so some major screw ups must have happened on this update. On a side note, as a sufferer from Autism, I am reliant on icons remaining the same or my brain doesn’t easily find them, as it works on physical recognition, and removing the W from the icon changing it to three blue stripes meant it took me ages to find it. Learning the new icon is going to take me a very long time due to short term memory loss. Please. Change the icon back to the old icon. I hope that you release an immediate fix for the ‘find’ option on iPad iOS MS Word, or at least return the previous version to the App Store so we can all ‘downgrade’ until a fix for this is found, as a removal of an important feature like ‘find’ isn’t an update at all, it’s a backward’s step.

I’m having exactly the same problem and I’m really scared because I need to make some corrections to Academia Journal articles

Dear Microsoft,

I’ve noticed a variety of changes to the search function over the past few months and it’s really irritating having to adjust to them. Search is an integral function many of us use constantly all day long. When it disappears altogether it is literally paralyzingly many of us from working at all!

The search function at one point recently was remembering the last word searched… that was fabulous. Microsoft: please bring that back and stop making changes to it?

Omg I’m having the exact same issue and it’s insanely annoying Microsoft please fix this asap

This isn’t an answer, Microsoft really does need to fix the now broken ‘find’ feature of MS Word. However, this is a poor ‘work around’ for iPad users.

“Pages” This is Apple’s word processor freely available on their devices that will allow you to load (and save) MS Word documents (to and) from your ‘OneDrive’ Cloud Drive, and it’s ’Find’ feature is working. It has a spell check, it underlines incorrectly spelt words with a jagged red line. However, there is no grammar check on ‘Pages.’ Also, if, like me, you like the ‘dark’ mode, then it’s background is ‘white’ with no straight forward option to change it to ‘dark’ so you’re working on a white page with black text. However, if you can live without the grammar check until Microsoft fixes Word’s Find feature, then it’s a good enough work around for me as a (hopefully not too) temporary solution. Also, the Store on Microsoft Windows I believe has got a ‘Pages’ version for Windows, but I haven’t had chance to look at it.

Here is hoping Microsoft actually returns our ‘Find’ feature.