Microsoft proves a version of free office applications, but with advertising

Now, Microsoft has begun to try a limited way a New free version of your Microsoft Office applications for desktopthat allow creating and editing documents of Word, Excel or PowerPoint, but that They include advertising and have some of their functions limited.

In this sense, advertising It is shown within the applications in a ‘banner’ advertising located on the right side of the screen that cannot be deleted. In addition, advertising videos of around 15 seconds Every certain hours of use.

Although these tests were initially shared by the Bebom medium, which had access to this version of Office with advertising, Microsoft has specified in statements to PCWord that it is a version that they have been tested in a limited way and that, for the moment, ““ “ There are no plans to launch a free version with advertising of Microsoft Office desktop applications. ”

Thus, as the aforementioned medium has been able to verify, this version has some variations such as that, for example, Users cannot save their documents crazybut are stored directly into OneDrive.

Therefore, to be able to save documents on the computer, they must be downloaded later from the application or the OneDrive website. In addition, Microsoft offers a free storage 5GB capacity in OneDrive for this service.

Likewise, some advanced Word, Excel or PowerPoint functions are Limited with the advertising version. Specifically, users They cannot install accessories, add water marks to the documents, or analyze data. Likewise, in the case of Excel, they will not have access to tools such as dynamic graphics, and in PowerPoint they cannot use the drawing and animation options.

To access this free version with advertising, users who have access to this limited trial version when downloading will find a “free plan” option next to the payment version of the subscription to Microsoft 365. Thus, it will be enough to click In ‘Continue for free’ to start using the version with advertising.