Microsoft Launches New Office Apps for iPhone, Makes Creating and Basic Editing Free on iOS

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in march, microsoft launched dedicated word, excel, , powerpoint apps ipad in first effort bring office capabilities everyone, everywhere. apps have been highly successful, garnering more 40 million downloads, , of today, microsoft expanding office ios suite, offering dedicated word, excel, , powerpoint apps on iphone.

while microsoft's office apps iphone have been designed existing ipad apps in mind, offering full feature parity, iphone versions have been built adapt iphone's smaller interface , optimized put touch controls first.

3 apps take advantage of innovative "vertical ribbon" puts full suite of editing tools right within thumb's reach @ bottom of device's screen. each individual app has built-in tools make viewing experience more streamlined on iphone's retina screen.

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word iphone, main view , review changes view​
in word, there's reflow button (located @ top menu bar) shifts mobile-optimized view reading , previewing what's been added document, , in excel, microsoft has focused on making simple edit formulas. tapping on cell brings editing buttons , dedicated formula keyboard.

excel has fullscreen view lets users have unobstructed view of spreadsheets, , powerpoint has similar tools, including ability project slides iphone using airplay.

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excel iphone, main view , pivot table view​

today's office update brings microsoft's popular productivity apps iphone includes new features , functionality ipad versions.

in addition expanding office apps iphone , updating ipad apps, microsoft has decided offer core office experience on iphone , ipad users free. means office users no longer required have office 365 subscription in order access features basic editing.

word, excel, , powerpoint users on ios able view, edit, create, , print documents free, many advanced editing capabilities still reserved office 365 subscribers. example, advanced change tracking features in word such accepting or rejecting changes reserved subscribers, pivot tables in excel , presenter view in powerpoint. office 365 subscribers 1tb of onedrive storage.

microsoft's office apps iphone compatible iphone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, , 6 plus, , include full optimization 2 larger-screened iphones. ios 7 or later required.

since releasing office ipad in march, microsoft has added 150 new features. microsoft's principal user experience manager han-yi shaw told macrumors company continue aggressively add features in future, , investigating new ios 8 technologies handoff.

microsoft's updated apps, universal, available today app store.

- microsoft word [direct link]
- microsoft excel [direct link]
- microsoft powerpoint [direct link]

article link: microsoft launches new office apps iphone, makes creating , basic editing free on ios
 

why want such limited office experience?

if there's reason go microsoft office on other solution it's it's closest set microsoft standard obvious reasons.

basic features mentioned here , anywhere else anyways...

mean it's still free app, me clogging device's valuable storage free.

i can't believe have explain words, here go: link

glassed silver:mac
 


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