Microsoft Releases Word, Excel And PowerPoint Apps For Android Tablets

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Office for Android Excel

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets. These apps offer unmistakably Office experience on Android tablets. As expected, there is Office ribbon to navigate commands, users can open documents that render beautifully and are accessible instantly from device to device via a roaming “most recently used” file list.

Within each app, we’ve prioritized the most important features for mobile scenarios. Word documents look beautiful, with text, images, footnotes, tables and charts all nicely formatted. You can review documents by tracking changes and adding comments, and then easily share your work. Excel spreadsheets bring raw data to life with support for formulas, charts, tables, PivotTables, sorting, filtering and comments. PowerPoint presentations look stunning when your ideas are expressed with full support for rich formatting and embedded video, transitions and animations. There’s even a handy format painter tool, built especially for touch.

Availability Details:

The current system requirements for Office on Android tablet are: devices of screen sizes 7 inches or larger (a device with screen size greater than 10.1 inches will require an Office 365 subscription to create and edit), with an ARM based processor and 1 GB RAM or above. Today, the Android OS version that is supported is KitKat4.4.x. While you can use the apps on an Android tablet running Lollipop, it is not supported at this time but will be in a subsequent update. Microsoft is also committed to supporting Android devices with Intel chips via a native implementation that will be available within a quarter.

Download Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the Google Play store today.

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