Google is improving the way OneDrive and Microsoft 365 are integrated into Chromebooks – which is great news for students

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is improving the way OneDrive and

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365 are integrated into Chromebooks – which is great news for students

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is finally improving the way that both OneDrive and the web versions of

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365 staples like Word and Excel perform on Chromebooks. The new features will allow users to choose whether or not they want to work on

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’s or

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’s productivity apps without having to sacrifice ease of use. 

According to a post on the

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, users will now be able to open an Office file and choose to open it in directly the

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365 app. Once you do that, you’ll be prompted to install a new app that will allow you to connect

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OneDrive and the Chromebook Files app. Once you’ve set up your preference, ChromeOS will remember and you’ll be able to access your files easily!

If you’d like to try it out yourself, you can search for the “upload-office-to-cloud” and you should be prompted to set up

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365 to open your files. 

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via blog post)

Smoother and better 

It’s great to see a better way for people to use

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365 on Chromebooks, as a lot of students and professionals have to access a plethora of different files that won’t always be part of

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’s ecosystem, which means they can be difficult to open on a Chromebook compared to a Windows 11 laptop or MacBook. The best Chromebooks are excellent devices, but in the past, it was a lot easier to simply use the

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Drive software rather than

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’s Office suite.

I remember being given a Chromebook for a few weeks at university and absolutely dreading downloading classroom resources from lecturers as they were all in various

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Office file formats and were subsequently a pain to move over and convert. 

This new feature could also open up ChromeOS to more people who at present may be intimidated by the operating system or under the (wrong, but not uncommon) impression you can’t use any non-

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features on a Chromebook. Hopefully, we’ll see more features like this introduced to ChromeOS in the future that help make Chromebooks more convenient for users. 

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