DOC or RTF text not reading correctly

Whenever I try to read Microsoft Word documents (DOCX or DOC) and RTF files in apps such as Fileapp Pro, Dropbox, Nocs, Office 2 and others, words are broken up on different lines. This makes reading and editing almost impossible. For example, in a file that I had loaded into these apps, there were several words on a line ending with wa but the letter s for the word was had been placed on the next line. Sometimes there will be only one or two words on one line while the following has more than it seems possible to fit. I have even seen one word broken across three lines. Is this a Voiceover problem or does text in these apps just display incorrectly? Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there a work around? Is Pages or any other app better at handling this problem? Chanelle