{"id":204639,"date":"2020-02-18T03:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/microsoft-just-combined-word-excel-and-powerpoint-into-a-single-handy-android-app\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:01:16","slug":"microsoft-just-combined-word-excel-and-powerpoint-into-a-single-handy-android-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/microsoft-just-combined-word-excel-and-powerpoint-into-a-single-handy-android-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft just combined Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single handy Android app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/02\/Snag_829a43-796x438.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Most of us have more apps than we need on our phones, so I\u2019ve always been a little annoyed that reading Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents requires separate apps \u2013 even if I\u2019ll only ever use some of them sparingly.<\/p>\n<p>Fret no more: today Microsoft publicly released the first unified Office app for Android. The app was previously only available for Office Insiders during a preview period that began in November with a small group of users, according to Thurrott.com. Now it\u2019s available publicly right in the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Office mobile app\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDPzKA1v32o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The app does much more than let you read and edit documents from those three apps though. Some other features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quickly jotting down notes (which can sync with the Windows 10 Sticky Notes app)<\/li>\n<li>Scanning text from images, including spreadsheets<\/li>\n<li>Reading and signing PDFs<\/li>\n<li>Scanning images using your phone camera<\/li>\n<li>Transferring files to your computer and nearby devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear if Microsoft plans to eventually replace the dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on Android, or if the unified Office app will live on in parallel for the foreseeable future. There\u2019s also no word on when the app will arrive on iOS, and\u00a0<em>Android Police<\/em> also notes the app does not appear to work properly on tablets just yet. We\u2019ve contacted Microsoft for more information will update this post if we hear back. In the meantime, you can download the new Office app here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2020\/02\/17\/microsoft-just-combined-word-excel-and-powerpoint-into-a-single-handy-android-app\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Most of us have more apps than we need on our phones, so I\u2019ve always been a little annoyed that reading Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents requires separate apps \u2013 even if I\u2019ll only ever use some of them sparingly. Fret no more: today Microsoft publicly released the first unified Office app for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}