Microsoft is making changes to how its mobile productivity apps open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
Microsoft announced changes to how its mobile applications, such as Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams, handle Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on iOS and Android. The company says it received a lot of feedback from confused customers who did not understand how the apps should work with the unified Microsoft 365 app and standalone Office applications.
To address the confusion, Microsoft made some changes to file handling in mobile Office apps. If you have the Microsoft 365 app alongside standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, opening files from Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams will launch their respective apps, not the Microsoft 365 app.
