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Microsoft 365 Apps, Outlook, Teams
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Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by late July, 2023.
Please note that this doesn't take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app's usage will be impacted by this change.
[When this will happen:]
Late July, 2023
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2023-06-13
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2023-07-19
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change history
| Date | Property | old | new |
| 2023-07-19 | MC Messages | Updated June 24, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your feedback.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. Please note that this doesn't take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app's usage will be impacted by this change. [When this will happen:] Mid-July, 2023 | Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by late July, 2023. Please note that this doesn't take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app's usage will be impacted by this change. [When this will happen:] Late July, 2023 |
| 2023-07-19 | MC Last Updated | 06/24/2023 09:20:16 | 2023-07-18T21:46:20Z |
| 2023-06-24 | MC Messages | Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below to include an image of the PDF Tools app for reference. Thank you for your feedback.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. [When this will happen:] Mid-July, 2023 | Updated June 24, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your feedback.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. Please note that this doesn't take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app's usage will be impacted by this change. [When this will happen:] Mid-July, 2023 |
| 2023-06-24 | MC How Affect | Users or Administrators will no longer be able to use this app, when this change is implemented.
Instead, we recommend the utilization of following apps and features, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources: If you are on a web or desktop endpoint, to convert a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file to PDF, open the file in the respective app. Click on File -> Print -> Select "Microsoft Print to PDF" under Printer. If you have an Adobe license, you can directly click on File -> Save as Adobe PDF. If you have access to Office.com, you can right click on any file without opening it and select "Convert to PDF" to directly convert the file to PDF. If you are on a mobile endpoint, use the Microsoft 365 mobile app on Android or iOS. On Android, Go to "Apps" tab -> Select "PDF Tools" -> "Document to PDF". On Android, Go to "Apps" tab -> Select "Document to PDF". This app has a host of other PDF related features like Scan to PDF, Pictures to PDF, PDF to Word etc. that you can use for FREE. | Users or Administrators will no longer be able to use this app, when this change is implemented.
Instead, we recommend the utilization of following apps and features, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources: If you are on a web or desktop endpoint, to convert a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file to PDF, open the file in the respective Word, Excel or PowerPoint app. Click on File -> Export -> Create PDF. Alternatively, you can go to File -> Print -> Select "Microsoft Print to PDF". If you have an Adobe license, you can directly click on File -> Save as Adobe PDF. If you have access to Office.com, you can right click on any file without opening it and select "Convert to PDF" to directly convert the file to PDF. If you are on a mobile endpoint, use the Microsoft 365 mobile app on Android or iOS. On Android, Go to "Apps" tab -> Select "PDF Tools" -> "Document to PDF". On iOS, Go to "Apps" tab -> Select "Document to PDF". This app has a host of other PDF related features like Scan to PDF, Pictures to PDF, PDF to Word etc. that you can use for FREE. If you are familiar with any other existing mechanisms to convert your documents to PDF, please continue using them. Those won’t be impacted by this change. |
| 2023-06-24 | MC Last Updated | 06/20/2023 17:35:25 | 2023-06-24T09:20:16Z |
| 2023-06-21 | MC Messages | We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023.
[When this will happen:] Mid-July, 2023 | Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below to include an image of the PDF Tools app for reference. Thank you for your feedback.
We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. [When this will happen:] Mid-July, 2023 |
| 2023-06-21 | MC Title | PDF Tools app retirement | (Updated) PDF Tools app retirement |
| 2023-06-21 | MC Last Updated | 06/13/2023 01:50:32 | 2023-06-20T17:35:25Z |
| 2023-06-21 | MC MessageTagNames | User impact, Admin impact, Retirement | Updated message, User impact, Admin impact, Retirement |
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