Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android Phones Hit General Availability

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 25 Jun 2015

The Office experience for Android users is complete now that Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Android phones have hit general availability.

These Office apps accompany the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Android tablets that Microsoft released to the public at the start of the year.

Let’s recap and make it simple.

At the start of the year, Microsoft rolled out three Office apps: Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets.

After having spent some three months in preview, the three apps were ready for the limelight so they hit General Availability (GA) and were published to Google Play. While these apps were in preview, they were downloaded 250,000 times in 33 different languages in 110 countries.




This week, Microsoft completed the Office experience by making the three Office apps mentioned above available for Android phones.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones, after having spent some five weeks in preview, graduated to GA and are now available for download on Google Play. While they were in preview, the apps have been tested on over 1,900 different Android phone models in 83 countries.




Get Word for Android phones and tablets from Google Play.

Get Excel for Android phones and tablets from Google Play.

Get PowerPoint for Android phones and tablets from Google Play.


In related news, Office Lens for Android recently graduated from preview. I remind you that you can use Office Lens to capture images of documents and convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files.

Microsoft’s useful Office Lens capture app is available for Android on Google Play and for iOS on Apple’s App Store.



In further related news, I have to bring up Office Remote. Available for Windows Phone since 2013, it became available for Android earlier this year. You can use this app to turn your Android into a remote for Office 2013 and remotely start a PowerPoint presentation, navigate between Excel worksheets, and so on.

Get Office Remote for Android from Google Play here.



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