{"id":105501,"date":"2015-01-29T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=105501"},"modified":"2024-11-07T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T05:12:37","slug":"office-love-now-android-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/office-love-now-android-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office you love is now on your Android tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
At Microsoft, we are working hard to reimagine the Office experience for a cloud-first, mobile-first world. On January 21st<\/sup> we previewed versions of Office for Windows 10 fully optimized for touch and mobile devices. Today, we are proud to announce the general availability of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to Office for Windows 10, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets are built from the ground up for touch and are perfect for mobile productivity. Consider a pharmaceutical sales rep on a train in Chicago, updating her monthly budgets in Excel. Or a student in a Madrid coffee shop writing a paper in Word, while collaborating with other students back at the dorm. Or a consultant from Bangalore at his client\u2019s site, wirelessly projecting a PowerPoint presentation to a large screen. These are just a few scenarios our engineering teams anticipated when we designed the apps\u2014for touch, on the go and tuned for Android tablets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch this quick video of the Office on Android apps in action to give you flavor of what can be done:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We designed these apps to be unmistakably Office, while optimized for Android tablets. Customers will immediately feel familiar with the Office ribbon. Large touch points make it easy for even the fattest of fingers to navigate commands. External keyboards can be connected but certainly aren\u2019t needed. Existing documents open and render beautifully and are accessible instantly from device to device via a roaming \u201cmost recently used\u201d file list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Within each app, we\u2019ve prioritized the most important features for mobile scenarios. Word documents look beautiful, with text, images, footnotes, tables and charts all nicely formatted. You can review documents by tracking changes and adding comments, and then easily share your work. Excel spreadsheets bring raw data to life with support for formulas, charts, tables, PivotTables, sorting, filtering and comments. PowerPoint presentations look stunning when your ideas are expressed with full support for rich formatting and embedded video, transitions and animations. There\u2019s even a handy format painter tool, built especially for touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n