Your Android smartphone could be your biggest Word or PowerPoint helper

Date:
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:36:52 +0000

Description:
Additional Android integration is coming to Microsoft 365 web offering, and you wont need to switch between devices all the time, either.

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Microsoft has announced a new, more convenient way to pull images from
Android devices, such as smartphones, into documents and spreadsheets made with the web versions of Word and Powerpoint found in Microsoft 365 .

In a post on the Office Insiders blog, the company revealed that it will soon be possible for users of Microsofts online online collaboration tool to link their Android photo libraries to a Microsoft account using a one-time set up process.

For now, the feature is only available to personal users, in addition to enterprise and education organizations, who have opted into the Office Insiders program, which gives users early access to exciting but experimental new features within the companys office software suite. Microsoft 365 and Android integration

While at a glance this might seem like an exclusive club, with some business and education users may be out of luck due to their organizations Microsoft Office configuration, its not too hard to enrol so long as a user has full control over their system.

For personal users, the Office Insider program is a simple opt-in, to be
found on the product information page within Microsoft 365.

Once thats done, linking your Android photo library to your Microsoft account is a simple process, so long as your Android device has the means to scan a
QR code with its camera and install the Link to Windows app on the Google
Play Store.

Luckily, these are features that will come as standard on most, if not all, recent business smartphones . READ MORE

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The new feature promises to be robust and intuitive, supporting the same
image sizes, dimensions, and file types currently supported by Word and Powerpoint on the web. It will also allow users to replace existing images in documents with those on mobile devices.

The feature will eventually be available to all users of Office on the web
who have a Microsoft 365 subscription, use an android phone, and, if they are using the Mozilla Firefox web browser , are using version 104.0 or later. Heres a list of the best photo editors right now



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