Microsoft has released a public preview of its new, completely revamped Office app for Android and iOS. A single Office app replaces the previously separate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps. It also includes the previously-announced features that let users take a photo of a document to create an editable Word document, and use the camera […]
Excel for phones now lets users import table data directly into spreadsheets from a photo taken with the phone’s camera. Microsoft announced the feature last September. It’s rolling out now for the Android version of the app, “with iOS support coming soon”. The feature lets users take a new photo from within the app, or […]
Microsoft has updated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Apple’s iOS platform with a handful of new features. Most significantly, the Office productivity suite now supports 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, which can be used to call up actions such as opening or creating files. All three apps also gain support […]
Microsoft Office 2016 is still in the works, but some users are testing it out with Office 2016 Preview, which started in May. Numerous updates have been added in the last two months, but Microsoft wanted to create an overall recap of the biggest improvements from June. Excel received an additional six charts to its […]
Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android smartphones. The latest renditions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint closely match those available to the iPhone. Microsoft said it made a lot of improvements to the apps based on feedback for the Android tablet version of Office. The apps are designed to be finger friendly […]
Microsoft today announced several new features for its Office suite of productivity apps. First and foremost, third-party cloud providers can now integrate their own services into the “locations picker” in the iOS Office apps. This means mobile device users can open, edit, and save their documents to any cloud service. Apple’s iCloud is the […]
Microsoft recently updated its Office apps for Android smartphones and added compatibility with Dropbox. The company announced Dropbox integration for its Office products earlier this month. Android users can now access Dropbox from Office apps to get to their files and folders; edit Office files directly from Dropbox and sync them across devices; and share […]
Microsoft has announced a major expansion of its core Office productivity suite across mobile devices. Microsoft is replacing the limited Office app for the iPhone with three brand new apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The apps allow iPhone users to create and edit Office content on their iPhones for free. Microsoft updated the iPad […]
Microsoft has today updated the Office iPad apps — including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — with in-app purchases of monthly Office 365 subscriptions. These are divided into Personal and Home tiers. The first costs $7 per month, and is limited to one iPad and one PC/Mac. It does however come with 1TB of cloud storage, and […]
Microsoft has updated its trio of Office apps for the iPad — Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — adding a number of significant features. Perhaps the biggest addition is support for PDF export, but new third-party fonts have also been added, as have new Picture tools that let people crop an image or reset it to an unaltered state. Other changes […]