Microsoft Office apps like Excel, PowerPoint and Word now available for Android smartphones

Last month, Microsoft launched the preview of its Office apps for the Android handsets and now the computing giant has made those apps available on the Google Play Store for the Android devices. Earlier, the Office apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint were only available of Android tablets but now even smartphone running the Android 4.4 KitKat and above can load them.

All these three apps are available absolutely free for download and come in in-app purchases for those who need more advanced features of the Microsoft Office on their handsets.

According to Microsoft, during the preview period of the Office on the Android phones, these apps were installed on “1,900 different Android phone models in 83 countries”. Later, based on the user feedbacks, the apps have been improved and have been designed for the use of general public. The promo video has been embedded below.

sources: Google Play (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Office Blog

Microsoft Office apps like Excel, PowerPoint and Word now available for Android smartphones

Get the Microsoft Office preview apps for Android handsets

Microsoft has recently announced the Office preview apps – Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the Android handset platform and are currently available on the Google Play Store. After initially announcing these apps on the iOS platform, Microsoft had been working hard to bring it to the Android platform used by lillions of users across the globe. Last year the company had released these apps of the Android tablet platform.

The Android smartphone solution is called as the Office Mobile. However, once these new Office Apps come out of the preview ambit and gets ready for mass distribution, they will soon replace the Office Mobile. Note that all these apps would be compatible with Android handsets running the Android 4.4 KitKat and above version.

However, in order to download these Preview apps, one will need to first join the Microsoft Office Android community on Google+ and then select the Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The first two stages are complete and from the below links, you can download these apps.

Download Microsoft Word for free from Google Play

Download Microsoft Excel for free from Google Play

Download Microsoft Powerpoint for free from Google Play

Via: PhoneArena

Get the Microsoft Office preview apps for Android handsets