This past January Microsoft released Office for Android on tablet devices that were at least 7-inches in size. Today they announced another step in their effort to make the suite of desktop applications truly cross-platform and cross-device with the launch of beta testing of the app on Android smartphones. Microsoft says the interfaces for Word, Excel and PowerPoint have all been optimized for use on Android phones while preserving formatting and content.
Besides standard capabilities related to creating and editing documents on the go, Microsoft says they have built in support for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box. This should make it easy to get to your Microsoft documents regardless of which cloud-based file storage service you use.
In order to participate in the Preview program and serve as a beta tester, users need to join the Office for Android community on Google+. Once they sign up there, they can click the links to the apps to become a tester. Microsoft does indicate users should wait for Google Play to replicate permissions so they will be allowed to install the Preview versions of the apps and this could take around 4 hours in some cases.
For those users who currently have the Office Mobile app installed, Microsoft says that app will continue to work during the Preview stage for the new apps. Plans for Office Mobile will be announced later when Office for Android on smartphones moves out of beta and into general availability.
source: Microsoft, +Microsoft Office for Android
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