Microsoft has introduced a brand new, extra handy strategy to pull photographs from Android gadgets, similar to smartphones, into paperwork and spreadsheets made with the online variations of Phrase and Powerpoint present in Microsoft 365.

In a put up (opens in new tab) on the Workplace Insiders weblog, the corporate revealed that it’s going to quickly be potential for customers of Microsoft’s on-line on-line collaboration device to hyperlink their Android picture libraries to a Microsoft account utilizing a one-time arrange course of. 

For now, the function is simply out there to non-public customers, along with enterprise and schooling organizations, who’ve opted into the Workplace Insiders program, which supplies customers early entry to thrilling however experimental new options inside the firm’s workplace software program suite.

Microsoft 365 and Android integration

Whereas at a look this may look like an unique membership, with some enterprise and schooling customers could also be out of luck as a consequence of their group’s Microsoft Workplace configuration, it’s not too exhausting to enrol as long as a consumer has full management over their system. 

For private customers, the Workplace Insider program is a straightforward opt-in, to be discovered on the product data web page inside Microsoft 365.

As soon as that’s carried out, linking your Android picture library to your Microsoft account is a straightforward course of, as long as your Android machine has the means to scan a QR code with its digital camera and set up the Hyperlink to Home windows app on the Google Play Retailer. 

Fortunately, these are options that can come as normal on most, if not all, latest enterprise smartphones.

The brand new function guarantees to be sturdy and intuitive, supporting the identical picture sizes, dimensions, and file sorts at present supported by Phrase and Powerpoint on the internet. It would additionally permit customers to exchange current photographs in paperwork with these on cellular gadgets.

The function will ultimately be out there to all customers of Workplace on the internet who’ve a Microsoft 365 subscription, use an android cellphone, and, if they’re utilizing the Mozilla Firefox net browser, are utilizing model 104.zero or later. 

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