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Nine different ways to use Office Web Apps
Now you'll always have your documents at your fingertips
Access, edit, and share your Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents online from almost anywhere — no attachments or thumb drives necessary!
Consistent document handling
When you're on the go, there's nothing better than being able to store your documents online so you can access them when you need them, wherever you are - a coffee shop, a co-worker's computer or even on a mobile phone.
But as anyone who's saved a document online knows, your documents on the web don't always match the documents you created on your PC - a chart's gone, or an image disappears, or something funky happened with the spacing. There's nothing worse than spending hours perfecting the look of a document, only to lose all that rich style - YOUR style - when you save it online.
Until now! With the Office Web Apps, you can access your great-looking documents saved online in SkyDrive from almost anywhere AND be confident that your formatting will stay consistent - whether the document is on your PC or on the web. Not all online software programs can say the same.
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Share More with Office Web Apps
With the Office Web Apps, you have more choices for sharing Office documents without having to learn a new tool. When you just need to send a document one way, an email attachment works okay, but it breaks down when you're collaborating with people and the attachments start flying back and forth, or when the person you're sharing with doesn't have the same version of Office. Web Apps are a great solution for those situations.
- Work with others on a document
- With the Web Apps you can control who can see and edit documents and you can email links to documents instead of attaching the actual file - that saves on email storage and prevents multiple versions of the same document from getting out there. Your teammates just click a link and the file opens in the Web App.
- Showcase your work
- Do you know someone who uses a different version of Office than you? Showing off your work to them can be tricky, unless you're there in person - what if formatting gets messed up? With the Web Apps, you just send them a link to the document and they can view it in their browser without having to open Office on their PC-and you can be confident the document will look the way you want.
- Put Office on your site
- You might also share information, opinion, or experiences with others through a blog or website. Office Web Apps can help you there, too, by allowing you to embed PowerPoint and Excel files directly on your site. Simply store the document you want to share in SkyDrive, then get the embed code and copy it onto your site. Viewers can see the document directly on the page, or open it in the full-screen Web App "view" mode and download it.
Use the Office Web Apps with just about any version of Office.
Or none at all.
It seems too good to be true, but you can use the Office Web Apps with just about any version of Office, or none at all. And to add to the goodness, the Web Apps don't cost a dime. Like peanut butter and jelly, though, the Office Web Apps are better with Office, in particular Office 2010, so you'll have a better experience when you combine the two.
Web Apps integration is built right into Office 2010, you can save your documents directly to SkyDrive from Office and you can access documents stored on SkyDrive from Office 2010 too. To save to SkyDrive, click the File tab in your Office document, click Save & Send, select Save to Web, and then sign in and save the document to the folder you want.