Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

Those apps are all an integral part of my personal productivity suite, the tools that I use on a day-to-day basis. Without a desktop version, those mobile clients are useful but not transformative.

Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...

You can open supported Office file hyperlinks directly in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint desktop app instead of the browser by default. By default, Microsoft Office ...

Word isn’t just for the desktop anymore. Here’s your guide to creating, editing, and collaborating on documents in Microsoft’s Word mobile app. Microsoft’s Word mobile app passed a milestone over the ...

Quip is announcing today the availability of a new Windows and Mac desktop version of its collaboration-friendly word processing, spreadsheet, and messaging application. Until now the app has only ...

When Quip was first debuted to the world two years ago by co-founder and former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, its unique selling point was that it was a “mobile first” word processor, built for the always ...

OnlyOffice is a free and customizable document, spreadsheet, and presentation editor that provides an excellent Office-like experience in a single app. OnlyOffice is a business-class productivity ...

The tech giant adds a new feature to the web version of Microsoft Word allowing people to record and upload audio for transcription. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he ...

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