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Your iPhone & iPad are ready to get to work with new apps for Docs, Sheets, & Slides
Monday, August 25, 2014
You suddenly remember you need to add "buy milk" to your grocery list, but don't have a pen or paper in sight. You’re on the subway with no reception and need to update your soccer club spreadsheet before you get to practice. You desperately need to make edits to your marketing strategy PowerPoint before you present, but you only brought your iPad to the meeting.
We've all been in binds like this before, but the good news is, now there's a way out.
With today’s launch of the
Slides app for iPhone & iPad
and updates to the
Docs
and
Sheets
apps, we’re delivering on our
promise
to make it possible for you to work with any file, on any device, any time. You can now create that grocery list, edit that spreadsheet, and update that slide deck with no problem.
Here's the lowdown on what you can now do with Docs, Sheets, and Slides:
You can truly get stuff done
from any device
—your iPhone, iPad,
Android phone, Android tablet
, laptop or desktop computer. Any change you make on any of these devices is saved automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off any time, anywhere that you can sign in.
The Docs, Sheets and Slides apps come with
offline editing built right in
. Just make the files you want to edit
available offline
. Any changes you make offline get automatically synced when you reconnect, just like when you make
offline edits from your computer
.
And while converting Office files to Docs, Sheets and Slides is a cinch, the new iPhone/iPad apps also let you
edit Office files directly
-- just like on the Android apps and the web.
Simply put, no matter where you are, how spotty the WiFi is, or what file type you're working with, you can get stuff done your way.
Posted by Li-Wei Lee, Software Engineer
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