Microsoft Office apps pick up better Outlook integration with ‘Send with Outlook’ and more

Microsoft PowerPoint 1.2 for iOS (iPhone screenshot 001)

Microsoft today issued refreshed Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in the App Store. The new versions of these mobile productivity apps include several new features, most notably tighter integration with Microsoft’s Outlook for iOS app.

In addition to richer Outlook integration across all three apps, you can now change selected text in Word to uppercase, lowercase, sentence case and more, as well as view comments in PowerPoint next to the slide in a task pane.

Outlook integration

For starters, you can now send a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet or a PowerPoint presentation as an Outlook email attachment with a new ‘Send with Outlook’ action.

The Outlook integration works both ways so, for example, it’s now possible to edit a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document attached to an Outlook email message and have the updated document automatically attached to a new email message.

Changelogs

The full list of changes in Word, Excel and PowerPoint is as follows.

Microsoft Word 1.12 for iOS

  • Change case—Quickly change selected text to uppercase, lowercase, sentence case, and more.
  • Send with Outlook—Send a document as an Outlook email attachment and return to Word.
  • Integration with Outlook—Edit a document attached to an Outlook email message. When you’re done, the updated document will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.

Microsoft Excel 1.12 for iOS

  • Send with Outlook—Send a spreadsheet as an Outlook email attachment and return to Excel.
  • Integration with Outlook—Edit a spreadsheet attached to an Outlook email message. When you’re done, the updated spreadsheet will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.

Microsoft PowerPoint 1.12 for iOS

  • Comments task pane—View comments next to the slide in a task pane.
  • Send with Outlook—Send a presentation as an Outlook email attachment and return to PowerPoint.
  • Integration with Outlook—Edit a presentation attached to an Outlook email message. When you’re done, the updated presentation will be attached to a new email message, ready to send.

Availability

Word, Excel and PowerPoint are available at no cost in the App Store with basic document editing features. A paid Office 365 membership, which starts at $5.99 via the In-App Purchase mechanism, is required for advanced editing functionality.

The apps require iOS 7.1 or later, have been optimized for native display resolution of the iPhone 5/5s/5c, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and are localized in English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Download Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the App Store.