Provided you have other Office apps installed (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), you can now open attachments directly from Outlook, edit the attachment, then attach it back into the reply email in a snap. That option is built in to the normal attachment viewer with a link underneath a filename that brings users to the respective Office app.

The third big change to Outlook comes via new sharing features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iOS.

The update will be a particular boon to organisations that use Office for iOS to work on documents together and makes the action an nearly seamless one as before it was only really available when using cloud-based document services.

First and foremost, Outlook for iOS users can now open and edit documents from Word, Excel and PowerPoint directly in the native Office apps.

Microsoft has ensured that Outlook for iOS wil now allow you to edit and resend file attachments, now how about that for versatility? If this action is followed, the apps will bring up a “Compose New Email” pane in Outlook with the document attached and ready to share.

Android will be getting the same functionality “in the next couple of months” and Microsoft is also working on updating Outlook for iOS so that it connects to OneDrive for Business later on this year. That’s because Office for Windows has had rich integration between these apps “for decades”, as Microsoft pointed out. Since Microsoft doesn’t want to share a change log, we’ll just have to dig around ourselves it seems.