With WhatsApp it is now possible to send Microsoft Office documents to your contacts. Handy for sharing a Word or Powerpoint file with someone, for example. In this tip we explain how it works.
To send Office documents via WhatsApp, it is important that you have version 2.16.2 or higher installed. This means not only that you can send Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files that you have created on your iPhone, but also any documents that you have stored in iCloud Drive. On your Mac you can now, for example, work out a Word document, save it in iCloud Drive and then share it on your iPhone via WhatsApp.
Share Microsoft Office files with WhatsApp
- Open WhatsApp and choose a chat where you want to send an Office file;
- Tap the circle with the arrow in it to open the share menu;
- Choose ‘Share document’;
- Select the app in which you saved the document. iCloud Drive or Dropbox for example;
- Find the document and tap ‘Send’;
- The file will be sent and will appear with a small icon in the chat window.
Thanks to this new option, you no longer have to transfer documents to PDF before you can send them via the chat service. Just keep in mind that the recipient can only view these files in WhatsApp, and will need a separate app to edit them. If you receive an Office file yourself, you can open it and then press the share icon (the square with the arrow in it) and select an app.
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