The Chromebook work experiment: 2017 edition No other laptops, no traditional tablets, nada - just the one Chromebook for everything I needed to do, from the moment I left my house to the night of my return. So on a recent business trip to Boston, I decided to take a more contemporary Chromebook as my sole large-screen computing device. The current Chromebook I personally own and most recently traveled with is the original Chromebook Pixel, and it's (a) not a convertible device and (b) just old enough that it wasn't among the devices upgraded with Google Play Store support earlier this year. If you really needed to get something down on Windows on Chromebook, this would be the way to do it but beyond the scope of this blog.One of those things is the now-widespread availability of Android apps on Chrome OS. This opens up a huge amount of additional software such as Office/Productivity apps, graphics/image editing apps, games and more.
If you are using an Office 365 Education account, your administrator can determine which tools will be made available and which may not be turned on.Īlthough not the intended purpose of these machines, any Chromebook with an Intel CPU can also run a variety of Windows software via the WINE emulator.
Once you are logged in, you will see the option to access all of your available Office tools and then select the tool that you want to use. To access the Office Suite online, go to: and login with your personal or school credentials (again, check with your IT manager). Microsoft Office Online, the free cloud version of Office, is available as a series of apps for Chromebooks, and you can always use the native Google Drive to open and edit documents and spreadsheets.All of your Office 365 creations will be saved in your OneDrive account in the cloud, so no need to worry about saving it on your machine! With Google Play becoming available on Chromebooks, the Android versions of Microsoft Office are now reported to be working correctly. It’s integrated with Microsoft’s OneDrive online storage instead of Google Drive, and doesn’t work offline. Microsoft also have Office Online – this allows you to edit Office docs in a web browser. You can also edit Excel and Powerpoint files on Chromebooks (and view PDFs) – see here for more details. You can try it out here by installing from the Chrome Store (or if you’re using GMail, you may have seen it already when clicking on a document attachment and selecting the “Open in Google Docs” option). Add the Office Editing Chrome extension to your Chrome browser.Add the Microsoft Word Online app from the Chrome Web Store.Use Google Docs or your Chromebook’s built-in file editor.
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