Description of App
The Office app combines the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know and rely on with new capabilities that harness the unique strengths of a phone to create a simpler, yet more powerful Office experience on the go.
Whether using it for personal or professional reasons, the Office app is designed to be your go-to app for getting work done on a mobile device.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint combined in one app:
• The most widely used tools for working with documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all from a single app.
• Create, edit, and work together on Office documents with others in real-time.
• Use templates to easily get started with your resume, budget, presentations, and other documents.
• Easily store, access and search for Word, Excel, PowerPoint files stored in your personal cloud storage, on your device, or across your organization (if using a work account).
Uniquely mobile ways that make document creation easier:
• Snap a picture of a document and turn it into an editable Word file with the press of a button.
• Transform a picture of a table into an Excel spreadsheet so you can work with the data.
• Let PowerPoint help you design a presentation by simply selecting the pictures you want to use from your phone.
• Create automatically enhanced digital images of whiteboards and documents with Office Lens features integrated into the app.
Quickly perform common mobile tasks with built-in Actions:
• Instantly create PDFs from photos or Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
• Easily transfer files between your phone and computer.
• Sign PDFs using your finger.
• Quickly jot down ideas and notes with Sticky Notes.
• Scan QR codes to open links.
Anyone can download the Office app for free and start using it right away. Access and save documents to the cloud by connecting with a Microsoft Account (for OneDrive or SharePoint) or by connecting to a third-party cloud storage provider. Logging in with a personal, work, or school Microsoft Account connected to an Office 365 subscription will unlock premium features within the app.
Subscription & Privacy Disclaimer
Unlock the full Microsoft Office experience with a qualifying Office 365 subscription for your phone, tablet, PC and Mac.
Monthly Office 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your App Store account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. You can manage your subscriptions in your App Store account settings.
This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.
Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms for Microsoft Office. See “License Agreement” link under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.
Comments
Accessibility of Word App
I have and iPhone XR and use a blue tooth Logitech keyboard with the MS Word app.
For over a year now I have complained to various Microsoft entities via the web, twitter, and the accessibility help desk, about a bug with the MS Word app that makes this very frustrating and error prone to use.
Specifically, when trying to highlight or select text using the Option+Arrow keys, the text is selected, but VoiceOver does not speak the selected text. This hotkey combination works in all other edit fields in all other apps. The problem only occurs when editing a document in the Word app.
This makes it virtually impossible to use reliably.
Hoepfully others will also report this problem to Microsoft and they might finally do something about it.
--pete - Very disappointed in this app when using VO
Disappointed in excel accessibility
When using excel, I cannot find the way to navigate via rows on the rotor. For comparison, if I'm using the numbers app and i'm on a table, when moving in the rotor, I eventually come across, rows. But in excel, I cannot see this option so... This makes this almost impossible to use.,
Its not just on ios on mac...
Even on windows it’s not the best experience. I mean it works but, the ribbons, layout etc; are ridiculous. Mind you, and this on windows... And then outlook which... On windows it a terrible interface... Sheesh! Furthermore, this is all a microsoft issue... I mean excel works no problem on mac, but it should work on ios as well, god knows we don't always have either a computer; or a bluetooth keyboard near-bye at all times so... Then again I cant say i'm that surprised, microsoft has a tendency to half ass mostly... everything; accessibility included; per what i've experienced. What has me confused, and I guess it’s the layout here? In excel, when you scroll through the rotor, you'll see sheets but... no rows; which is what you should be getting. I tried vertical navigation as a possible workaround but... no dice; sort of. It works... until you have to work with merged tables... which is where it doesn't work. And yet you look at numbers on ios? Go through the rotor and... yep, you'll see rows after scrolling through it. I really don't know how microsoft didn't add this... but it clearly shows their commitment to accessibility is nothing more than a smoke and mirrors show, sadly. They say accessibility, and yet its always half assed, not done propperly, not implemented proppely... And when your stuck and only have your phone for work? Yeah good luck. Of course I do have a pc where I can work and do work; but there sometimes comes the time where i'm in a situation where I don't have it in front of me. In all seriousness though, its highly disappointing to see this lack of accessibili,ty as a whole in microsoft.
Clarification
For those trying this out on iOS, would the Vertical Navigation rotor setting work as an alternative to the 'Rows' rotor action?
Re, clarification
Sort of, but ot that much. From what i've tested, if your working with a regular table you should be fine but, when you start dealing with merged cells,where for example, your on h3, and when you go down you go to say b1, that's where vertical navigation flops.
Fair point...
Another question. Can you add either an Activity, or add a custom gesture under VO settings, to navigate by linked items?
Kinda like 'VO + J' on macOS.
Dunno, will have to try
I'll have to try that out... I'll give it a shot, but honestly, we shouldn't have to be doing this, i.e: going through extra steps, alternatives when... do to microsoft's half assed effort's... I mean it may work, but it’s frustrating, to say the least.
True enough, but...
If there is a workable solution, "something" is better than "nothing", no? 🤔
Valid point
I tried figuring out the activity thing but, there doesn't seem to be any same links or liked item in the rotor, from when I went there to check, so not sure if this would work.
Try Commands
Try commands under VO Settings on your iPhone. Then touch, there are many, many little known controls for VO that are unassigned and I 'think' jump to linked item is one of them.
formating is a mess
I would not have rated this app as it is, because formating is horrible and you don't know if you activate things like bold or italics or centered text, or justified it, or whatever in deed is spoken by JAWS on windows.
So it is useful to make some wording but not a real job as Oliver Kenet said.