I checked out on the Mozilla Firefox, Puffin, and Brave mobile browsers.

And I played Clash Royale, with some clutch help from my colleague Dean Takahashi. My workaround is just to record and send voice messages.įacebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all work as they should. Chat bubbles appear when you receive new messages - just as you would expect - although the Chrome OS task bar gets in the way of hitting the send button once you’ve typed in a message. I downloaded the Messenger app on the Chromebook, and guess what? That works too, for chats and video calls.

This is important because until now there was no Skype for Chrome OS, and on the web, the Skype app only supports messages, not voice or video calls. When your work is complete on a Google doc, sheet, or slide, you can use the File > Download option to save your work as a word, excel, or PowerPoint file, respectively.I had a video call with VentureBeat editor in chief Blaise Zerega, and it worked perfectly. Once converted, you can edit and collaborate with people within Google docs, sheets, or slides. Microsoft also offers all of these apps, except Microsoft sway, in the chrome web store:Įven if you don’t have an office account, you may still be able to open and edit word, excel, and PowerPoint documents on a chromebook using Google’s editing apps, docs, sheets, and slides.įor years, you have been able to open and convert a word file into a Google doc, an excel file into a Google sheet, and a PowerPoint file into a Google Slides presentation. From the browser, you can access Office online apps. Or, go to and sign in with your office account. It also lets you create new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, respectively, from the chrome browser. This extension gives you fast access to open existing office files stored locally or on OneDrive. On your chromebook, follow the link to install office online from the chrome web store. You also may work with Office 365 apps on the web from a chromebook. Eight ways to fix chromebook when frozen.

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