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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

The Real Microsoft Office Apps Now Available for Android Smartphones

June 25, 2015

Office has been available for Android tablets since January, but now you can install Microsoft Office on your Android phone for free. Apparently, the Office apps are a little light on the smartphone and don’t have the full functionality as the tablet version. It’s still better than not having Office at all. The new offering includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It integrates with OneDrive and Dropbox too. The new Office apps require your phone to be running Kit Kat (4.4.x) or higher and 1 GB of RAM. Each app (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) are separate downloads and are not grouped together into a single Office app like the previous Office Mobile. The apps are pretty beefy. When I installed them, Word is 176 MB, Excel is 168 MB and PowerPoint is 166 MB in size. As with the other Office apps, signing in with a free Microsoft account or having an Office 365 subscriptions unlocks more features.

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