Provided you have other Office apps installed (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), you can now open attachments directly from Outlook, edit the attachment, then attach it back into the reply email in a snap. Now, when you open an Office document from Outlook and finish making your changes, you can tap on the Back button to close the document and return to Outlook. Users who don’t have the apps needed will see the documents in a built-in viewer and get a link to download the app from the App Store.
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Microsoft has rolled out an update for the Office touch apps, available on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile.
The update also makes it easier to collaborate on attachments and send edits in email from Outlook. This new integration between Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS is supposed to fix that once and for all.
According to the Next Web, the new update allows the users to open and edit attachments in Word, Excel and PowerPoint more easily. The point of the feature is collaboration and makes it simpler to begin editing documents and share them with a minimum of steps.
This button will bring up the Outlook “Compose New Email” pane with the document attached and ready to share.
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Microsoft notes that similar functionality is coming to Outlook for Android in “the next couple of months”. Since Microsoft doesn’t want to share a change log, we’ll just have to dig around ourselves it seems.
