The Microsoft Office apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint will have limited editing features if you don’t have MS Office 365 subscription. Of course, any of the files, a MP3 song or a Word document needs to be saved in OneDrive. After installing them, sign in with your Microsoft account in each app, follow the same procedure as above and you are done. First install the apps you desire, you can find links to them here. In a similar way you will need to setup Office, OneNote, Skype, Groove Music and Outlook. Step 3: As we have already enabled Camera upload in the previous step, just tick the box and click on Next and then on Done in the final window. If you don’t want to upload photos, just turn it ON once and turn it off again after it has synced a photo or two. Once you are done doing this, tick the box as shown in the image below and click on Next.Ĭool Tip: Microsoft gives you 15 GB of cloud storage for enabling Camera Upload service per device. In my case all the photos, including screenshots, WhatsApp images etc. One thing to note here is that, depending on your phone’s gallery configuration, OneDrive may also upload photos other than those in the camera folder. I have set it to upload only when on Wi-Fi and plugged in to avoid unnecessary battery drainage. Once signed in, go to Settings -> Camera upload and turn it ON. Step 2 : Open the OneDrive app on your phone and sign in with your Microsoft account. For added convenience, Microsoft will also send you the link over email if you prefer. You will also need the OneDrive app on your Android phone. If you don’t have a Microsoft account create one by going here. Step 1: You will need a OneDrive account, which is same as Microsoft account. The OneDrive PartĬlick on the Get started button under OneDrive icon as shown in the image.

You will also need to install an app for each of the seven things that it syncs.Īs OneDrive is the backbone over which everything is synced, we will see in detail how to set it up. As such, it relies heavily on the OneDrive service to sync everything between the phone and cloud.

The phone companion app is mainly aimed at syncing music, emails, to-do list and more with Microsoft’s products and services. A little message at the the bottom also tells you that if you want to just copy some files to your phone, the old way of plugging and transferring files through My Computer is preferable. When launched, it will ask you to choose your phone platform. To launch the app, click on Start menu button and search for Phone Companion.

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