Microsoft has finally enabled a productivity-boosting feature for its iPadOS versions of Word and PowerPoint. Now you can use Split Screen to work on two documents at once from any app (or the same app). It appears to work with Excel, though that app wasn’t listed in the announcement.
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How to do it: This works basically the same as with other Split Screen apps. Bring up the dock with a little swipe up from the bottom of your iPad screen, then tap and hold the icon of the other app you want to work on. Slide that icon to the right edge of your iPad screen and it will enable a split.
One caveat: Microsoft says there’s a way to enable Split Screen from the Open/Recent/Saved menus, but we weren’t able to make that happen during our testing. Only the classic iPadOS method worked.
In short: If you have iPadOS 13, you can now work on multiple documents at once. Since this is one of the better productivity features on the iPad, it's high time Microsoft allowed it in its, well, productivity apps.
