Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now available as Teams Personal Apps

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (WXP) are now available as Teams Personal Apps.

There are no changes to the existing file open behavior for these personal apps in Teams, however there are new abilities they can provide. Additionally, this change comes with a number of user experience improvements to the Office ribbon in Teams to provide a decluttered experience consistent with Office for the Web.

New abilities include:

• Ability to pin the apps to the app bar for easy entry point
• Right click the app icon in the app bar to pop out documents in a new window, to allow multi-tasking between Teams chats and document editing
• App home page to navigate documents, view recommended files, or create new file

Changes to the Office ribbon in Teams include:

• Open in Browser and Open in Desktop App move to the mode menu
• Introduction of the Share menu, consistent with Office for the Web
• Conversation button is removed
• Introduction of in-app Search bar in app header

Javier Obregon • 2022-Aug-25