Google Docs for iOS adds Microsoft Office edit support – 9to5Google

Following the net final yr and Android in September, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for iOS can now edit Office recordsdata. 

This functionality is pitched as bringing the “collaborative and assistive features of Google Workspace to your Microsoft Office files” in a well-recognized interface. For instance, a corporation would possibly nonetheless obtain Word paperwork from shoppers and different sources, however in any other case use Google’s productiveness instruments for all inner work. In coming to cellular, customers don’t have to obtain one other app. Three key features are touted:

• Allows you to edit, remark, and collaborate on Microsoft Office recordsdata utilizing Google Docs’, Sheets’, and Slides’ highly effective actual-time collaboration instruments. 
• Improves sharing choices, improves sharing controls, and reduces the necessity to obtain and e-mail file attachments. 
• Streamlines workflows by decreasing the necessity to convert file sorts. 

This modifying performance replaces the earlier Office Compatibility Mode (Quickoffice), which solely had primary options. The following Microsoft file sorts are supported:

• Word: .doc, .docx, .dot 
• Excel: .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm (macro enabled Excel recordsdata), .xlt 
• Powerpoint: .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .pot 

The capability to edit Office paperwork in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for iOS is already rolled out right now on each private and enterprise accounts:

Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus in addition to G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits prospects 

More about Google Docs:

• Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides will depend towards storage caps, new auto-delete insurance policies introduced
• Drive now immediately opens Office recordsdata in modifying mode on the net
• New Google Workspace icons rolling out — Drive, Gmail, Chat, Meet, Docs, Calendar, & Keep
• Google Drive utilizing dynamic emails to allow you to grant file entry immediately in Gmail
• Docs, Sheets, and Slides choosing up Add-ons facet panel

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