If you employ Microsoft’s Office productiveness apps like Word, PowerPoint, or Excel on Apple-made gadgets, you haven’t been in a position to paintings with a kind of apps on one instrument after which proceed with that document on any other instrument. Today, Microsoft published that it has added Apple’s Handoff characteristic for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for its Mac, iPhone, and iPad gadgets.

In a put up at the Microsoft 365 Insider weblog, the corporate mentioned:

Handoff is an Apple characteristic that lets you proceed operating on content material whilst switching from one Apple instrument to any other. For instance, in case you are operating on a PowerPoint presentation to your iPhone and wish to transfer in your Mac, Handoff makes it conceivable with only a couple clicks. 

The weblog put up says this option is enabled for any individual who makes use of Office apps on supported gadgets with the similar Apple ID account. Also, any file that you need to edit around the Mac, iPhone, and iPad will have to be saved within the cloud, both in OneDrive or SharePoint.

If that is the case for you, all it’s important to do is release Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on one in every of your supported Apple gadgets and open a file within the app. Then deliver your Mac, iPhone, or iPad close to a tool the place you need to proceed operating at the app.

You will have to see the Dock on a Mac or iPad, or the app switcher to your iPhone. You can then make the transfer between the ones gadgets by means of clicking or tapping the chosen app to open the similar document at the different gadgets.

The Handoff characteristic for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps on Apple gadgets is now to be had on iOS for Version 2.89 (Build 24090210) or later and for the Mac for Version 16.89 (Build 24091630) or later. Microsoft issues out this option isn’t to be had at the Apple Watch.