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Dropbox gets search for Word and Powerpoint docs on iOS

Dropbox gets search for Word and Powerpoint docs on iOS
Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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Dropbox for iOS has been updated to version 3.3, and includes a couple of significant improvements.

The major change in version 3.3 is the new ability to search within PowerPoint and Word documents, due to ‘higher fidelity previews’. There is also support for larger animated GIFs, and it claims to use less disk space due to ‘smarter caching’. The new Dropbox should also be better at opening back to where you were if you exited the app, although it’s not clear what ‘better’ means in practice.

For the uninitiated, Dropbox is an app available for almost all devices and platforms. Sign up for an account, and you can store your files ‘in the cloud’, which are then available for you wherever you are signed into Dropbox.

It’s a simple to use system, but the mobile apps, unsurprisingly, feel limited compared to the desktop apps. Viewing complex files like PowerPoint presentations and even Excel documents on mobile devices is not easy, but little by little, Dropbox is making it better.

Download Dropbox 3.3 for iOS.

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