Google is improving the way OneDrive and Microsoft 365 are integrated into Chromebooks - which is great news for students

Date:
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:21:45 +0000

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Working on Chromebooks could get a lot easier thanks to better integration of OneDrive and Microsoft 365.

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Google is finally improving the way that both OneDrive and the web versions
of Microsoft 365 staples like Word and Excel perform on Chromebooks. The new features will allow users to choose whether or not they want to work on Microsofts or Googles productivity apps without having to sacrifice ease of use.

According to a post on the ChromeOS Beta Tester Community blog , users will now be able to open an Office file and choose to open it in directly the Microsoft 365 app . Once you do that, youll be prompted to install a new app that will allow you to connect Microsoft OneDrive and the Chromebook Files app. Once youve set up your preference, ChromeOS will remember and youll be able to access your files easily!

If youd like to try it out yourself, you can search for the upload-office-to-cloud and you should be prompted to set up Microsoft 365 to open your files. (Image credit: Google via blog post ) Smoother and better

Its great to see a better way for people to use Microsoft 365 on Chromebooks, as a lot of students and professionals have to access a plethora of different files that wont always be part of Googles ecosystem, which means they can be difficult to open on a Chromebook compared to a Windows 11 laptop or MacBook
. The best Chromebooks are excellent devices, but in the past, it was a lot easier to simply use the Google Drive software rather than Microsofts Office suite.

I remember being given a Chromebook for a few weeks at university and absolutely dreading downloading classroom resources from lecturers as they were all in various Microsoft Office file formats and were subsequently a
pain to move over and convert.

This new feature could also open up ChromeOS to more people who at present
may be intimidated by the operating system or under the (wrong, but not uncommon) impression you cant use any non-Google features on a Chromebook. Hopefully, well see more features like this introduced to ChromeOS in the future that help make Chromebooks more convenient for users. You might also like... Mysterious ChromeOS tablet could be the work of Lenovo - and might be the future of Chromebooks Apple's M4 plans could make the latest MacBooks outdated already Microsoft can be slow to cure bugs at times but you wont believe how long it took to fix a CPU-related glitch preventing Windows 11 upgrades



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