3 Ways to Transfer Microsoft Office Files to iPhone iPad

Updated Jul 27,2018 | by Cody

You may have saved important Microsoft Office files on your PC or USB drive. Do you want to transfer them to your iOS device so you can view or edit them on the go? No problem. In this article, I will show you 3 ways to transfer Microsoft Office files to iPhone step by step.

Method 1: Transfer document from PC to iPhone with IOTransfer

IOTransfer is an iPhone transfer software for Windows PC that allows you to transfer office documents to iPhone from PC wirelessly. What’s more, it allows you to transfer photos, photos, videos between iPhone and PC without being plugged in.

You can follow the steps below to transfer Microsoft office files to iPhone:

Step 1. Download and install IOTransfer on your Windows computer.

Step 2. Launch IOTransfer and select the AirTrans tab at the top menu. Use your iOS device to install the corresponding app IOTransfer AirTrans.

Step 3. On your PC, click on Start Transfer. Now the program will scan your iOS device and you can click on your device to start to connect your iOS device and PC. You can also use your iOS device to scan the QR code to build connection instantly.

Step 4. Tap Send to iPhone and select the office file that you want to transfer and start the transfer. You can also bulk select multiple files to transfer.

After that, you can open the AirTrans app to view this document file. If you want to edit this file, you can easily add it to the corresponding office app on your iPhone. you can also use this app to send office documents to your PC wirelessly.

Besides transferring office documents, IOTransfer can be more helpful in terms of managing your iPhone. It can help you backup iPhone in one click, clean your iPhone for junk files and caches, download online videos, convert video to another format, etc.  

Method 2: Transfer Office Documents to iPhone Using iTunes

iTunes has a feature called File Sharing that allows you to send files from PC to supported apps on iPhone. Luckily, all the Microsoft Office apps support File Sharing. You can refer to the steps below to transfer Microsoft files to iPhone or iPad.

Step 1. Connect your iOS device to your PC using a lightning cable and open iTunes.

Step 2. Within iTunes, click on the device button on the top left corner of the screen.

Step 3. Click File Sharing under Settings.

Step 4. Then click on the corresponding app that you want to transfer files to. If you want to transfer an Excel sheet, then you click the Excel app. Here, I will transfer word documents to iPhone.

Step 5. Click Add File to select the document that you want to transfer and click Save to start transferring.

Method 3: Transfer Office Files to iPhone from a Cloud Drive

Besides the above two methods, you can always use cloud drives to transfer files to iPhone. You can simply upload the document files to a cloud drive like iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive or DropBox.

Since iOS released the Files app, you can add all your cloud drives to the Files app. After that, you can view and edit not only the office files but all your files in the cloud drives on your iPhone.

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