The essential office apps for Android – Computerworld

The Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps are easy to navigate and have all the basic features you’d expect for their respective categories. In Docs, for instance, you can style text, insert tables, adjust alignment, and insert a variety of different types of bulleted lists. In Sheets, you can style and merge cells, create charts, and find and use all sorts of common spreadsheet functions. And in Slides, you can use rich formatting tools, add speaker notes, and insert your own custom backgrounds.

It’s with the more advanced word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation commands that Google’s apps lag a bit behind Microsoft’s — not being able to style tables within documents from the Docs app, for example, or not being able to sort rows within a spreadsheet in Sheets. If you need those sorts of beyond-the-basics capabilities, Google’s apps won’t be right for you.

In addition, the mobile apps surprisingly don’t sport many AI elements as of yet, which is slightly shocking, really, given how aggressively Google is shoving Gemini into our faces everywhere else thesedays — including within the browser-based Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps. For now, the Docs Android app does have certain limited Gemini functions available for organizations on the $168-per-user-per-year Workplace Business Standard plan and higher, including an AI-provided document summary command, the ability to create an AI-generated draft based on a prompt, and the option to ask Gemini questions about the document you’re viewing.