But while the iPhone got an all-in-one Office app in February of last year, the iPad didn’t. The app is currently free to use-even without signing in.If you’ve wanted to use a Microsoft Office iPad app, you’ve been able to run the individual Word, Powerpoint, and Excel apps for many years.

Interested in optimizing your own experience using Microsoft Office on your tablet? As of this week, anyone can now download the Office app on both Android and iOS tablets and phones.

“We want people to think of the Office mobile experience as a tool they would turn to for content creation and more sophisticated work-not just for light editing and information consumption.” “We’re constantly thinking about ways to enrich the Office mobile experience to help people be more productive on a phone,” the Microsoft 365 Marketing Team added. So what might motivate someone to use Microsoft Office on a smartphone or tablet, anyway? New features will allow users to use voice dictation to type in a document, take a photo of a physical document and turn it into a Word file, grab photos of a table and turn it into a digital spreadsheet, or even create PowerPoint presentations using images stored on the camera roll-all of which will boast the proper “styling, formatting, and iconography of your content.” “We took this as a challenge for Office to find a better overall productivity experience that would change perceptions of how you could work on a mobile device to create an experience that was simpler, more integrated, harnessed the unique strengths of mobile devices, and truly put mobile needs at the forefront.”

“We know many people save rich document creation or editing for their computer or laptop and work on their phones in limited ways,” the Microsoft 365 Marketing Team shared in a press release.

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