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The new Office for Android

Posted on May 11th, 2020 at 01:00 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

OFFICE

By Lincoln Spector

Microsoft recently took a major step in letting us do some work while we’re running around town (which we look forward to doing again, someday).

For years, MS Office on Android phones and tablets wasn’t really Office; it was a collection of separate and watered-down versions of Word, Excel, and so forth. But the new Office Mobile for Android (info page) combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with some additional capabilities, into a single app. The new Office is now a fairly useful suite … for use on smartphones and tablets, especially because it’s still free!

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.18.0 (2020-05-11).

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