In today’s post, we will show you how you can install Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) on Windows 11/10 as Progressive Web Apps for a more traditional experience. With just a few clicks you will be able to access the online version of Microsoft 365 apps from their respective shorts. So, if you want to install Office Web apps as PWA on Windows 11/10, this post is for you.
PWAs are just a combination of a traditional browser and mobile app experience. PWAs are web-based applications, created to help users use them on devices like laptops, desktops, smartphones, phablets, tablets, and more – this has been the main reason several companies are migrating their websites to PWAs. This means that PWAs would seem like a website to anyone using it on a laptop, whereas to a mobile phone user, it would give the feel, impression, and experience of an app.
We have already seen how to install Outlook On The Web as a PWA – now let us see how to do this.
Install Office or Microsoft 365 Web Apps on Windows 11/10
To install Office or Microsoft 365 Web Apps on your computer, we can make use of any browser, but for the sake of this guide, we will be using the preinstalled Microsoft Edge.
To install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook web apps, do the following:
- Fire up the new Edge browser
- Navigate to the Office web app you want to install – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook.
- Click the Ellipsis (three dots) button from the top-right.
- Select Apps menu.
- Click the Install this site as an app option.
- Click the Install button.
Repeat the steps to install any other Office web app. After the installation, the apps will be available from the Start menu, and you can pin them to the taskbar.
Note: In Chrome, you need to click on the three dots, select “Save and share”, and click on “Install page as an app”.
Uninstall Office Web Apps
Owing to their nature, Progressive Web Apps behave like traditional desktop apps – the uninstall process is basically the same as uninstalling any other app on Windows 11/10.
That’s it, folks!
How to install Outlook PWA in Chrome?
To install Outlook PWA using Google Chrome, open Outlook.com, click on the three dots, select Save and share, and click on “Install page as an app”. You will see an option to install the page, click on the Install button to confirm your actions.
How to set Outlook PWA as default?
To set your default PWA site in Microsoft 365, click on the Settings icon on the navigation bar, then select Default PWA site. In the Change default PWA site dialog box, input your preferred PWA site URL and proceed by clicking Change site.
Also Read: Make PWAs run at Startup automatically in Windows.
