How Microsoft’s Office app helps with schoolwork, PDFs, signatures and more

If your child is tired of endless Zoom calls and typing on screens, Microsoft’s Office app for iOS and Android offers a respite: kids can work on paper, and you can submit their work electronically.

Microsoft launched its Office app for iOS and Android in February, a few weeks before the pandemic drove us all indoors. Who knew, as my family hunkered down to work and study from home, that the Office app would quickly turn into an indispensable tool for managing day-to-day document tasks for my kids as well as myself.

Here, you’ll find a few quick tutorials, all these Office app functions are free.