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cdmagurus.com
09-09-2020, 10:17 AM
Microsoft launched its Office app for iOS and Android (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/02/19/new-office-app-android-ios-available/) in February, a few weeks before the pandemic drove us all indoors. Who knew, as my family hunkered down to work and study from home, that the Office app would quickly turn into an indispensable tool for managing day-to-day document tasks for my kids as well as myself. If you don’t know how much it can do, keep reading to find out.
If it is or could be a document, Office can helpWe’ve used the Office app on Android, and it allows you some frankly amazing flexibility.-You can take a picture of a page of a book and use the Office app to extract the text automatically using optical character recognition. You can turn a photo into a PDF. You can sign a PDF that you’ve already created.-You can take a photo of a spreadsheet and turn-that into an Excel table, or turn a document into a PDF,-or vice versa. Don’t underestimate those last features, either, as PDF-to-Word conversion tools can be hard to come by. And, of course, unlike most of the PDF editors we’re reviewed (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3215231/best-pdf-editors-reviewed-and-rated.html), all these Office app functions are free.
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