Mcrosoft has been very generous of late, giving mobile users of their Office Mobile suite of apps more features to enjoy as they navigate Word, Excel and Powerpoint on their smartphones and tablets. The latest update for the apps now brings easier sharing options for OneDrive, their cloud storage service, as well as support for Dropbox, probably the cloud service of choice for a lot of people right now.
When you save your Microsoft Office documents on your OneDrive, as they highly encourage you to do, it is now easier to share these files with the people involved or those you need to collaborate with, doing it all within the app. All you need to do is open a document within OneDrive or OneDrive for Business, click on the menu, choose share and then use the email as link option. It will then of course send a link to the saved file to whoever you want to share it with.
But since Microsoft knows very well that Dropbox has a huge share in the cloud storage market and that support for this is always a bonus point with users, they signed a partnership with them so that users of both the Office and Dropbox will find it more convenient to exchange files within the app. You can now choose Dropbox as a location for new files that you’re working on. You can also already browse your Dropbox files within the Office suite, as long as they’re Word, Excel and Powerpoint files of course. And just like with OneDrive, you can already share the links from within the Office apps as well.
The updates are already ready for updating. If you haven’t automatically received the update yet, you may choose to manually do it. Just head on over to the Google Play Store, and if you’re missing out on Office for Android’s highly convenient way of opening, editing and creating files, go ahead and download it for free.
SOURCE: Microsoft
