Microsoft Office Online Web Apps
Microsoft Office Online Web Apps are the online companions to Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and they ae free!!! Users can use the Office web apps to create, view, and edit documents from virtually anywhere they have an Internet connection.
Microsoft Office Online Web Apps are available in Windows Live for home users while enterprises can install and configure Office Web Apps on their SharePoint 2010 site. Microsoft Office Web Apps extend your Microsoft Office experience to the web browser, where you can work with documents, right there on the website where the document is stored. You can even Co-author in real time (i.e. you can work with others on the same document at the same time) in Excel Web App and OneNote Web App.
How to use to use Microsoft Office Online Web Apps?
The following are the steps to save an Office 2010 document online.
- 1. Open an existing document or create a new document in Word 2010, Excel 2010, or PowerPoint 2010, on your PC.
- 2. Click the File tab to open Backstage view, a full-window file menu that gives you easy access to functions such as saving, printing, and sharing.
- 3. Click Share and then Save to SkyDrive, the free online storage service from Windows Live, that allows you to upload files and access them from a Web browser.
- 4. In Backstage, click Sign in. You will be prompted to enter your Windows Live ID, or create a Windows Live account. It should be noted that if you use Hotmail, Messenger, or Xbox Live, then you already have a Windows Live ID.
- 5. Select from the list of SkyDrive folders that is displayed or create a new folder and click Save As.
To view, edit, and share your Office 2010 document online, follow the steps mentioned below.
- Visit http://skydrive.live.com. If prompted, enter your Windows live ID and password and click Sign in.
- Select the skydrive folder where you saved your document. Click the file and then select View.
- You will be prompted to read and accept the terms of use. When you click Accept, you will be able to view, edit, and share your document online.
Thus, Office Web Apps provides a new way to store your documents so that they can be viewed and even edited in the browser. With Office Web Apps, a website becomes a new storage device for your Office documents: a storage device that makes your documents easy to access and easy to share.
Office 2010 is not required to work with Office Web Apps, but Office 2010 programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) include commands for saving files directly to SharePoint and Windows Live.It also doesn’t matter whether your version of Microsoft Office matches what your friends or colleagues have. There’s no need to download a viewer as your documents look the same in the browser as they do in the Office programs.
However, Office Web Apps has limited features and if you want to make substantive changes that require the feature-rich Office desktop applications, you can seamlessly transition to the corresponding Office desktop application directly from the Office Web Apps! If you have a document open in an Office Web App, click the Open command to open the file directly from the browser into the Office program that is installed on your computer. When you are done, click Save in the Office program, and the file is saved back on the server.
Microsoft Office Web Apps work in some of the most widely used browsers, and are officially supported in Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and the Firefox 3.5 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as Safari 4 for the Mac.
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