Outlook now allows us to open attachments in Office

Email applications are available in the Apple App Store. But applications that really are valid for heavy mail users, we could summarize in two: Spark and Outlook. Of these two, Outlook brings us more advantages if we compare it with Spark, thanks to the integration with the Office suite, but also to the compatibility with all current mail systems such as IMAP, POP, Exchange ... that we cannot find in Spark.

Also Outlook has created a kind of forum where all users can send their suggestions so that the guys at Microsoft, if they see them really interesting, add them to the application. This aspect is making the Outlook application continually receive new features and enhancements that have made it the favorite application for managing email by millions of users.

The latest update that the guys from Redmond have brought us is the ability to open the attachments that we receive in the application in which it was created. That is, if we receive a Word document, clicking on the link will open the Word application. If we don't have it installed, the Outlook viewer will open the document and inform us that if we want to modify it, let's go through the App Store and download the corresponding application.

Another new function that this update brings us is that of collaborate on documents between multiple users. Once we have made the appropriate changes to the document, we will click on the return button so that an email is automatically sent to all the people, with the attached file, who collaborate in the drafting of the document so that they can check the changes we have made.

Within the Office suite, we can find a button to directly share the documents on which we are working to send them directly through Outlook, through the option Write new mail where the document in question that we want to send will automatically be included.