Microsoft has announced a new, more convenient way to pull images from Android devices like smartphones into documents and spreadsheets created with the web versions of Word and Powerpoint found in Microsoft 365.
In a post (opens in a new tab) on the Office Insiders blog, the company revealed that it will soon be possible for users of Microsoft's online collaboration tool to link their Android photo libraries to a Microsoft account on the office. time setting process. .
For now, the feature is only available to personal users, as well as businesses and educational organizations, who have opted into the Office Insiders program, which gives users early access to exciting but experimental new features within the office suite of office software. company.
Microsoft 365 and Android integration
Although it may seem like an exclusive club at first glance, with some business and educational users having bad luck due to their organization's Microsoft Office setup, it's not too difficult to join as long as the user has full control over their system.
For personal users, the Office Insider program is a simple subscription that can be found on the product information page in Microsoft 365.
Once that's done, linking your Android photo library to your Microsoft account is a straightforward process, as long as your Android device has the means to scan a QR code with its camera and install the Link to Windows app from the Google Play store. .
Fortunately, these are features that will come standard on most, if not all, recent business smartphones.
The new feature promises to be robust and intuitive, supporting the same image sizes, dimensions, and file types that Word and Powerpoint on the web currently support. It will also allow users to replace existing images in documents with those from mobile devices.
The feature will eventually be available to all Office users on the web who have a Microsoft 365 subscription, use an Android phone, and if using the Mozilla Firefox web browser, use version 104.0 or later.