Microsoft released Office for iPad four months back and since then over 35 million users have downloaded it from App Store. Microsoft recently announced the next wave of updates to Office for iPad. It included some of the popular features like Presenter View, Pivot Table interaction, Export to PDF and more. Today, Google announced their updates for Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides apps on iOS. One of the key feature added in this release is the ability to edit native Office files directly.
Here’s the new features on what you can now do with Docs, Sheets, and Slides:
- You can truly get stuff done from any device—your iPhone, iPad, android phone, android tablet, laptop or desktop computer. Any change you make on any of these devices is saved automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off any time, anywhere that you can sign in.
- The Docs, Sheets and Slides apps come with offline editing built right in. Just make the files you want to edit available offline. Any changes you make offline get automatically synced when you reconnect, just like when you make offline edits from your computer.
- And while converting Office files to Docs, Sheets and Slides is a cinch, the new iPhone/iPad apps also let you edit Office files directly — just like on the Android apps and the web.
Microsoft won the desktop productivity space comfortably with Office, but when it comes to mobile productivity, it is anyone’s game. With the recent focus around mobile first, cloud first strategy, Microsoft should deliver rapid updates to its mobile clients in the future.
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