Since Apple officially introduced the Magic Keyboard with trackpad, there have been many applications that little by little have been updated to offer trackpad support, not only for the Magic Keyboard, but for all the keyboards that incorporate it, in order to offer an experience similar to what we can find on Mac.
One of the applications that has taken the longest to update are those that are part of Office. We are talking about Word, Excel and PowerPoint three applications that together with the trackpad allow us to get the most out of the iPad Pro. The update for these three applications that includes trackpad support is now available in the App Store.
In the details of the update that Microsoft has posted on its blog, they explain to us how it works, an operation that offers us an experience very similar to what we can already find in Apple office applications.
As you move a finger across the Magic Keyboard's built-in trackpad, the cursor becomes the tool you need depending on the content you are pointing at.
And using a mouse or trackpad with the iPad for common tasks like highlighting a paragraph of text in Word, selecting a range of cells in Excel, and moving and resizing graphics in PowerPoint is as simple and intuitive as ever.
This experience will be immediately familiar to anyone who has used Office on a Mac or PC and helps make iPad even more versatile and capable of getting more work done.
These updates reflect the recent design improvements that Microsoft has been making to its applications, which allow enjoy Microsoft 365 just like on a computer.
Remember that Office 365 was renamed Microsoft 365 a little less than a year ago, although they offer us the same benefits and functionalities as with the previous name.
