With the new Google Slides app for iOS devices, the company’s ‘kindly’ offer to save you a quick buck by letting you natively edit MS Office files is up for grabs. The tech giant had previously released its standalone Docs and Sheets applications to allow users to deal with Microsoft Word and Excel, respectively.
You can take your Google Drive stuff offline to edit or create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images and so on. The alterations you make to these files can be automatically synced to the contents stored in your cloud locker whenever you manage to get connected to the Internet once again.
The newest Google Slides release permits you to handle Microsoft PowerPoint files. All three apps we’ve mentioned so far are designed to enable you to natively open, edit and save files from the MS Office suite. This should come in quite handy to those who aren’t heavy MS Office suite users and may just need to edit a native document occasionally.
In other words, there won’t be any need to trouble the wallet for a license and Google’s productivity tools are free anyway. In case you’re asking, Microsoft does have an Office for iOS app, but requires users to pay for a subscription to Office 365 in order to exploit the software to its full potential.
Even if you don’t get the Google Slides app from iOS by following this iTunes link, the company may still prompt you to do so when you’re signed into Drive, just like it did with Docs and Sheets. All three applications can be downloaded for iPad, iPhone or iPod touch for free.