Microsoft changed how files are handled on mobile Office apps

Mobile Productivity: Working pinch files created successful Office applications connected mobile devices tin beryllium a baffling chore. Acknowledging this, Microsoft decided to streamline nan experience. Unfortunately, endeavor customers could find nan caller strategy moreover much confusing, astatine slightest for admins, since it requires argumentation changes.

Microsoft precocious introduced a alteration successful really to usage Word, Excel, and PowerPoint record types connected Android and iOS devices. The caller behaviour is reserved for "hub" mobile experiences, chiefly OneDrive, Outlook, and Teams. These platforms will now prioritize standalone apps and destruct immoderate "uncertainty" customers person antecedently experienced.

The corresponding Office exertion deals pinch nan archive erstwhile a personification opens a Word, Excel, aliases PowerPoint record connected a smartphone aliases tablet. Previously, nan Microsoft 365 app handled record opening. If users do not person nan standalone productivity app associated pinch nan record they are opening, it will redirect them to nan app shop to download it. However, if nan customer already has nan Microsoft 365 app connected nan device, it will grip nan files arsenic before.

Microsoft initiated nan alteration to amended "predictability" successful mobile productivity scenarios because standalone Office apps are amended astatine managing much than 1 model astatine a time. Enterprise organizations pinch respective labor would apt proceed to usage nan Microsoft 365-centric measurement of doing things. They tin enforce this by implementing a circumstantial instrumentality guidance argumentation to restrict nan installation of individual Office apps.

According to Microsoft's timeline, nan caller file-opening behaviour is already successful spot for OneDrive customers connected iOS and Android. Outlook will get nan characteristic betwixt October and November, pinch a Teams merchandise schedule forthcoming. Microsoft claims that personification feedback spurred nan caller handling method. The institution asks customers to proceed providing their opinions truthful developers tin amended mobile app functionality.

Shortly aft announcing nan change, Product Manager Samer Sawaya revealed that Office apps connected iOS, iPadOS, and macOS now support Handoff. Handoff is simply a usability of each Apple devices. It uses iCloud arsenic a relay constituent truthful that users tin commencement moving connected a archive connected 1 instrumentality and seamlessly move to another. The archive opens pinch nan antecedently committed changes upon starting up nan corresponding app.

Getting started pinch Handoff connected Microsoft apps is conscionable arsenic straightforward arsenic utilizing it. Users must instal aliases update Word, Excel, aliases PowerPoint apps connected each devices from their respective app stores. Then, log successful to your Apple ID relationship connected each devices. When utilizing a PC, you must shop nan shared documents successful OneDrive aliases SharePoint for cross-functionality.