Microsoft introduced adjustments to how its cell programs, comparable to Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams, maintain Word, Excel, and PowerPoint information on iOS and Android. The corporate says it gained a large number of comments from puzzled shoppers who didn’t know how the apps must paintings with the unified Microsoft 365 app and standalone Office programs.

To deal with the confusion, Microsoft made some adjustments to record dealing with in cell Office apps. If you have got the Microsoft 365 app along standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, opening information from Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams will release their respective apps, no longer the Microsoft 365 app.

If a person has best the Microsoft 365 app, not anything will exchange—information will proceed opening within the Microsoft 365 app. And if no apps are put in, Outlook, OneDrve, and Teams will open the App Store or the Google Play Store and urged to obtain Word, Excel, or PowerPoint as a substitute of the Microsoft 365 app.

Here is how Microsoft explains those adjustments:

Our function is to reinforce predictability for a way information get opened when ranging from our key “hub” reports on cell units (OneDrive, Outlook, Teams) – the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps if put in will necessarily be appreciated to maintain record open operations. For shoppers who need to open a couple of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint record immediately, the standalone apps can higher maintain facet by way of facet and windowing situations that fashionable pill and cell working techniques strengthen.

The up to date record dealing with revel in is now to be had in OneDrive on iOS and Android. Outlook gets it in November, and the timeline for Teams is these days “being finalized.” If you wish to have to be informed extra about how Microsoft’s productiveness apps paintings with Office information, take a look at the authentic announcement publish at the Tech Community boards.