Use Excel on a Chromebook with remote access software

Splashtop Business Access allows you to use your laptop, tablet or mobile device to access your other computers and control them remotely. Start your free trial now (no credit card or commitment required) and follow the installation instructions !

How to continue using Office on Chromebook ?

Announcement of stopping Office Applications Support on Chromebook was able to worry. The exploitation of your Word documents, Excel binders, outlook messages or other PowerPoint presentations will still be possible with your ultraportable on Chrome OS. It will even be more practical than ever, and we tell you why.

End of Microsoft support on Chromebook, why and when ?

Barely a few weeks ago, the American giant Microsoft announced that it would stop the support of its Office and Outlook applications on Chrome OS, the ChromeBook Bookbook operating system. And this measure will take effect From September 18.

Concretely, these two applications will be purely and simply removed from the Chrome OS application store, and it will therefore no longer be possible to download them. In addition, they will not benefit from any updates from this date.

Why this choice which can at first appear amazing on the part of Microsoft ? The publisher has judged that the user experience with its applications did not meet the expected level of requirement. These applications, originally provided for smartphones, were not, according to Microsoft, not optimized for use on 2 in 1 or laptops under chrome tactile tablet. Hence the decision to go to a Use exclusively online, What is nothing else to explore knowing the primary philosophy of the Chromebook which are intended for essentially connected computers

Why choose a chromebook ?

How to continue using Office and Outlook features ?

For Chromebook users, it will be enough to connect to Office.com or outlook.com and to identify yourself via its Microsoft account or, if necessary, with its Microsoft 365 identifiers. They will find their Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) documents and their outlook messages exactly as if they were still on the application of the Chrome Play Store. Do not hesitate to consult the dedicated page offered by Microsoft to facilitate the connection.

If you have subscribed or plan to take out an Office offer when purchasing your Chromebook, and you want to continue using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook applications, you are invited to download them to the Play Store By September 18. After this period they will not be more available. And for, a reminder passed this date there will no longer be any support or update.

As well, web apps ? No, even better !

Not only will there be no breakdown of service, but the user experience will be greatly enriched by the passage of the native application on Chrome OS to the web version, Regarding Microsoft 365 customers. Lighter and more reactive, web versions provide much higher user comfort. But that’s not all ; We win in passing Premium additional features, As shown in the table below:

Features	Web Office version.com	Play Store applications
Automatic backup in OneDrive	Yes	Yes
Real -time collaboration	Yes	No
Offline full access	No	Yes
Insert a summary	Yes	No
Banner with all features	Yes	No
Dictation	Yes	No
Premium models *	Yes	No
Translation	Yes	No
Help with smart writing (Microsoft editor)	Yes	No
Supportment modules support (e.g. docusign)	Yes	No
Insert visual from stored images or from Bing	Yes	No
Support quotes in Bing Research	Yes	No

* Microsoft 365 subscribers

Learn more about Microsoft 365

And offline use ?

For those who wish to use their offline documents, this feature is not available on office.com to date. There is however a solution, less practical but which has the merit of existing: you can load your Office files on the drive, make them available offline and use the applications of Google Workspace to edit them by keeping their original format.

Use Excel on a Chromebook with remote access software

Chrome computers are cheap alternatives to PC and Mac laptops. Chrome OS has been designed to allow you to do all your work from a web browser enjoying online applications such as Google Sheets and Google Drive.

However, chromebooks are generally not able to install and execute certain software applications, including Microsoft Excel. Although there are certain ways to use Excel from a Chromebook, such as a web application, these versions often lack characteristics and features compared to Excel’s desktop version.

This turns out to be a challenge for companies and schools who want their users to access the full version of Excel while working from a Chromebook. This has become particularly important recently, as many students and workers use Chromebooks to work remotely.

What is the best way to overcome these problems and use Excel on your Chromebook ?

With Splashtop, you can remotely access your Windows and Mac computers from a Chromebook, which allows you to easily access Excel.

This means that you will have exactly the same Excel experience as if you were sitting right in front of your Windows or Mac computer. You can access the remote computer and control it in real time. You can perform Excel, take advantage of all the features it offers and save/open files on the remote computer.

Here is all you need to know to start.

How to use Excel on a chromebook with splashtop

The installation only takes a few minutes. Once you are installed, you can launch remote connections from your Chromebook to a desk with one click !

Step 1: Start with splashtop for free

Splashtop Business Access allows you to use your laptop, tablet or mobile device to access your other computers and control them remotely. Start your free trial now (no credit card or commitment required) and follow the installation instructions !

Configure your Chromebook with the free Android Business Splashtop Business application on Google Play Store . You can also get the Splashtop Business application on the Chrome Web Store if your Chromebook does not support Android applications.

Step 2: Access your Mac or Windows computer remotely from your Chromebook

After configuring your splashtop account and your devices, open the Splashtop Business App application on your Chromebook to see the list of all your computers you can access. Then select the one you want to access to connect.

Step 3: Start using Excel on the remote computer

You will then see the screen of your remote computer in real time and can take control as if you were there in front. You can start working on a new Excel spreadsheet or open one to perform your tasks !

Splashtop also allows you to view the multi-monitors configuration from your remote computer on your local chromebook and your external monitor.

Get splashtop for your chromebooks

Once the installation is completed, simply an internet connection to access your computers from a Chromebook and operate Excel. Schools and companies can also easily deploy Splashtop for their users.

If you are an individual user.

Start your free trial of Splashtop Business Access and follow the steps above !

If you are a company with remote workers using chromebooks.

Splashtop offers quantitative discounts to companies who wish to allow their employees to work remotely.

If you are a school or a college whose students use Chromebooks.

Splashtop offers remote desktop solutions for distance learning and remote access to computer labos ! With Splashtop, students can access the school’s computers from their chromebooks in order to be able to run any software, including Excel, from their own device.