Microsoft's new 3-in-1 Office app for Android and iOS reimagines mobile productivity
It’s really no big secret that Microsoft has managed to vastly improve its mobile apps and services after pulling out of the smartwatch market and throwing in the Windows Mobile towel, but the company is certainly not resting on its laurels, instead trying to find new ways to enhance your on-the-go productivity.
Because the camera is becoming the single most important selling point of any mobile device, Microsoft also aims to “harness the strength” of your increasingly more capable shooters by letting you instantly turn a picture of a document into an editable Word file, a picture of a table into an Excel spreadsheet, and any image stored on your phone into an editable page of a PowerPoint presentation.
Another major new Office app feature for Android and iOS handsets is an Actions pane that offers quick access to “common tasks you may encounter on a mobile device.” We’re talking things like PDF creation using your camera, PDF signing using nothing but your finger, OR code scanning to open files and links, text or table extraction from images saved to your phone, and file transfers between mobile devices and computers, which are all both possible and very easily accessible.