Users who have used Microsoft Office for the desktop are probably familiar with add-ins. Essentially one could think of add-ins for Office as how extensions are for browsers where users can add more features and functionality to the app that might make their life more convenient.The good news is that it looks like add-ins is a feature that Microsoft will be bringing to its mobile version of Office. Announced on the Office blog, Microsoft writes, “Developers play a critical role in the world of Office by building new experiences for users and customers that we could never have imagined. Developers can extend Office apps using add-ins to expose their custom capabilities to users and connect to Office 365 through open APIs.”
The add-in feature will first start by arriving on Microsoft Excel for the iPad. Microsoft has stated that this feature will be rolled out to the Word and PowerPoint iPad apps at a later point. As for Android users of the Office app, Microsoft has stated that add-ins for the Android version will be coming later and only after Office for iPad gets it.
The company did not provide any specific release dates only to say “later this year”, but hopefully Android users of Office won’t have to wait too long to get their hands on it.
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