Microsoft announces new all-in-one Office Mobile app for Android

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Microsoft already hosts separate apps on Android for its office tools such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. The new app is definitely a really nice addition to the Office family, and it will be interesting to see if Microsoft will eventually phase out the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps in the future.

Microsoft's new Office app will combine Word, Excel and PowerPoint into one app. A picture of a table can be turned into an editable spreadsheet, and Office Lens integration means it's easy to create digitally enhanced images of documents and whiteboards. Creating files locally happens via the big red floating action button in the bottom center, following which are a set of nested menus for choosing what type of document you'd like to make - Excel, Docs, a note, that sort of thing. Its appearance fulfils a long-standing promise of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to port the company's popular Office applications suite to other widely used operating systems - not just Windows and MacOS. It has everything you need to be productive on the go, including access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

The new Microsoft Office beta will let the users create, edit, and share different documents on the cloud or your Android smartphone.

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Want to put Microsoft Office's on an iOS or Android device?

You'll be greeted by all your documents when you first open Office Mobile. If you need to navigate to documents at a file level, you can do that via a browser that shows both local storage and your Microsoft/OneDrive account storage, plus any documents that have been separately shared to your account. The inbuilt capability to scan QR codes for opening files and links quickly is another striking feature.

Sign PDFs using your finger.

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