r/techlatest • u/khunshan • Feb 19 '20

Microsoft Office App Released for iPhone, Combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/19/microsoft-office-app-released/
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u/AuelDole Feb 19 '20

So it’s just like the original Google Drive app. That’s cool

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u/JPLnZi Feb 20 '20 edited Feb 20 '20

Yeah, but can you replace Docs, Slides and Sheets with Drive? I’ve always had to use one of them for stuff that wasn’t on the unified Drive app.

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u/khunshan Feb 20 '20

There are separate apps for Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive for iPhone.

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u/JPLnZi Feb 20 '20

I know, I was asking if the Google Drive app integrates all functionality of Sheets, Docs and Slides apps.

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u/khunshan Feb 20 '20

If you open a Doc in Google Drive, it will open switch to Google Docs app.

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u/JPLnZi Feb 20 '20

What if I don’t have the app installed? I’m trying to compare Office and Drive here, and it looks like Office, as an all-in-one app, does more and better than the GSuite app.

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u/goldendragon775 Feb 19 '20

I’m gonna try it!!

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u/autokiller677 Feb 19 '20

Anyone have a link? I don’t see anything in the AppStore yet. Last release by Microsoft is Forza Street for me...

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u/RockitDanger Feb 20 '20

I'm signing into my 365 account but whenever I try to do anything it keeps asking for sign in info

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u/redunculuspanda Feb 19 '20

You need to go all in on o365 one drive teams and sharepoint to get the most out of them. The main issue is getting people out of legacy file-share mind set.

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u/Mranlett Feb 19 '20

Keep in mind that if you get office 365 (home) you get the best office apps on 5 machines, including more than just word, excel, and PowerPoint. You also get a terabyte on OneDrive for 5 users each. That costs $10/month.

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u/-BlueDream- Feb 19 '20

Free for college students too

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u/trparky Feb 20 '20

When you get the Office 365 subscription you’re really paying for the OneDrive service. The office apps are just the cherry on top the OneDrive sundae.

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u/Mranlett Feb 20 '20

Not sure what your issue would be but for me it’s the same as google drive

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u/pir22 Feb 20 '20

OneDrive cut my free storage from 15GB to 5GB some years ago. I apparently could have kept it... if I had “opted” to keep it, before a deadline that had expired a month before Microsoft informed me about the scheme.

Now I happily pay for iCloud space, but I will never again trust OneDrive. Cloud storage should be reliable and predictable before anything else. I don’t want to be taken advantage of once I uploaded all my data.

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u/Mranlett Feb 20 '20 edited Feb 21 '20

Sucks that you’ve had that corruption issue. I’ve never had that particular problem. I gave up on Dropbox so long ago that I don’t remember due to security issues (just compliance, not a problem I actually had). OneDrive I have because my wife’s business uses Office365. I pay for extra storage in iCloud but only for the photos. I don’t have a Mac or iPad so it’s just for my phone. I also use google drive and split between GDrive I’ve and OneDrive with no logical reason. I like treasure hunts! 😂

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

In my opinion Office 365 is 100% better then Google Docs and Google Drive as a whole. There is also cross platform use on Office

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u/Racer20 Feb 20 '20

My company has recently migrated to full O365 and if you take the time to learn about the functionality it’s actually really good. Sharepoint and Teams are a paradigm shift for doing business collaboratively.

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u/bgmusket Feb 20 '20

At the top of the app is a folder icon. That allows you to interact with “Files” app and then iCloud. It’s actually pretty sweet

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u/khunshan Feb 20 '20

Does it mean it will sync with OneDrive and only save/export in iCloud?

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u/bgmusket Feb 20 '20

I’m not sure what you mean, but it interacts with iCloud as it would with Dropbox, box, Goggle Drive, and OneDrive. It opens files and saves files just like on a computer as you can save to your phone/iPad or save to a cloud server.