Rumors had been pointing in this direction for some time, and now WhatsApp finally allows the sending of documents through their chats A feature that extends the possibilities of the messaging application beyond the merely social or personal, taking skills to become an option also in laboral Or, at least, to prevent users from escaping to other tools where sending all kinds of files is already allowed, such as Telegram If you want to know how to send documents with WhatsApp, follow these simple steps.
1.- The first thing to do to have this function is update WhatsApp to its latest version from the application store Google Play or App Store (At the time of publishing this article, only thebeta or test version for Android of the WhatsApp website has this feature).
2.- From this moment on, the user only has to access any of the conversations or chats where they want to exchange documents . Once inside, the button with the clip icon (share) displays the new menu where the Documents button appears This menu previously had the section Video, which has disappeared or been integrated into the gallery to make way for the new function.
3.- When you click on Documents, WhatsApp is responsible for searching the phone's memory for those compatible files We are talking about office files such as text documents (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), slideshows (.ppt)”¦ Something that could soon be expanded to more file types.
4.- After touching the chosen file, a confirmation window allows you to think twice if it is the correct document that you want to send . When you confirm the action, the document is uploaded to the chat and sent to the caller.
With these steps, uploading a document to email and sending it to an interlocutor is no longer necessary It is enough to have said contact in WhatsApp to send you the file.All this together with other virtues such as the double blue check for reading confirmation, and other information such as the statusof said user, which allows knowing if they have received the file or not.
The document sent by WhatsApp is reflected in the conversation thanks to a new type of card Simply click on it to open it thanks to the applications Office Google, or through any other document application installed on the mobile In addition , as an advantage, as with photos and videos, it is possible todownload or not the document from the conversation to avoid data consumption and memory fill
It should also be taken into account that, with this new function, the screen of shared files in a conversation or chat is modified Until now only the most recently received photos and videos were collected. Now, two new tabs allow the user to move between photos and videos, documents and also , shared links A complete convenience to quickly return to those documents or files of interest, without having to review the entire chat.
