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By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 20 February 2020 13:40 IST

Microsoft Office App Now Available for iOS, Combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

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Highlights

Microsoft Office app for iOS is available for through App Store
The app also debuted on Android recently
Microsoft Office app will soon get a Word Dictation feature

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Microsoft Office all-in-one app is now publicly available for iOS devices. The new development comes just after the Redmond company brought the unified Office app for Android devices. Notably, the Office app for both iOS and Android devices was available through a public preview until now. The app provides access to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It also integrates the Microsoft Lens technology to convert images into editable Word and Excel documents, scanning PDFs, and capturing whiteboards. The Microsoft Office app is available for on iOS devices directly through the Apple App Store. Of course, Android s can get the latest experience through Google Play.

One of the biggest advantages that PowerPoint under one roof. The app was released for testing purposes through a public preview in November.

Since the public preview, Microsoft has underlined in a blog post that it had made “several enhancements” to the Office app. These include for third-party storage services including iCloud; templates to create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; and general performance improvements.

The amalgamation of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint helps reduce the storage requirement of the app. To give some perspective, the Word app is iOS devices with a file size of 282.4MB, while the Office app for iOS is sized at 378.6MB.

Having said that, Microsoft doesn't want to discontinue the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for a couple of reasons. These are firstly important for the s who don't want all three productivity tools from the company on their devices. Secondly, the Office app currently has limited tablet . Microsoft did mention in its blog post that it's working on making the app fully optimised for tablets soon.

Apart from commitment to bring full-fledged for tablets, Microsoft has highlighted three new features that would reach the Office app in the coming future. One of those features include Word Dictation that will allow s on Word to dictate their notes. The app will have toolbars to alter formatting and punctuation marks. The second feature is the Excel Cards View to let s view and edit data in an Excel table row using a card format. Microsoft is also bringing an Outline to PowerPoint feature to let s write their presentation content as an outline and use the PowerPoint Designer to turn it into presentable slides.

All the new features showcased by Microsoft would be provided to both Android and iOS devices in the next few months.

The Office app is available for free on both Android and iOS platforms. However, you need an Office 365 subscription to access features.

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