A new and streamlined process of signing in to the Office apps on Android, Android for Work, and the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow have also been installed. After installation, it opens up OneDrive, OneNote, Sway and common documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If you are a member of Office 365, you can leverage the Presenter View of PowerPoint.
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Microsoft Excel got slightly more changes, but a few made to Word apply to this app as well such as reduced app size, Android for Work compliance and Android M for Enterprise support.
The Redmond-based tech giant is focused on improving the experience of those using its services on platforms other than Windows; among them, iOS, Android as well as Mac.
Just over a year after it started offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage for Office 365 subscribers, Microsoft is going back on the deal. Office Corporate Vice President Kirk Koenigsbauer stated in their official blog that “there is an improved “Navigation pane” meant to ease the process of scrolling through huge document files using the online version of MS Word”.
In addition, Microsoft is making it easier to access its Web Office Suite with the help of a new Chrome extension for Office which now allows the users to open a variety of Office documents right within Chrome, whether they are stored in OneDrive or their computer.
Keep in mind that Microsoft Office apps for Android are available as separated downloads on Google Play Store, and they’re free to use. Office on Android apps also are more enterprise-ready. Last week Microsoft announced Skype voice and video integration in Office Online (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote Online) and in Outlook, so that you can now see and speak to your Skype contacts. Presenter View lets presenters preview a slide as well as their notes without showing those materials to the audience. Microsoft also recently added two new commands to the Visual Basic object model for Mac: GrantAccessToMultipleFiles and AppleScriptTask and a new conditional, MAC_OFFICE_VERSION.
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The desktop version of Skype will have the new features in 2016.
