QUICKFACTS in Microsoft Office

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Microsoft Office Web Applications, called Web Apps for short, are a browser-based set of applications for viewing and performing lightweight editing in a familiar layout of your existing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files over the Internet or an intranet whereever there is a PC or Mac

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(Continued) This book introduces you to Web Apps on the Internet using Microsoft SkyDrive, which can also host your data files When you want to view or edit a Word file, for instance, you bring up a browser, sign into http://skydrive livecom, and scroll through your folders, just as you would with your own computer folders When you find the document you want to open, you click it, click View or Edit, and the Microsoft Word Web App opens to do that A second approach, not covered in this book, is where you are working within an organization with its own servers hosting your data files and Office Web Apps Accessing folders and applications works similarly to using SkyDrive; however, the protocol for signing in and accessing the files will be based on your organization s security If your organization also is running SharePoint, you may be able to go directly from a file in a SharePoint library to viewing or editing the file in an Office Web App, again from any computer on your intranet, and possibly on the Internet

an isolated person working alone When you store data and have programs available from an Internet server:

You don t have to worry about whether you have the latest program updates You don t have to worry about whether you have access to your home computer, for instance, when you are traveling

You don t have to worry about someone else being able to read your documents when they don t own the program or the same version of the program

SkyDrive (http://skydrivelivecom), the Microsoft server hosting one platform for its Web Apps, is where you can save your Office documents, thus enabling viewers without Office applications or the latest version of them to view the document and do lightweight editing with a browser If you have created a document on your own computer, saving your files to SkyDrive preserves the links, color schemes, and other design elements created with your local Office application The file and all the supporting objects are saved to a Web folder that you create on SkyDrive or to a public folder

To set up your SkyDrive credentials and upload a file, you must first establish a Windows Live ID and account To do this in an Office desktop application, click File, click Save & Send, and click Save To Web The Save & Send view opens, as seen in Figure 1-14 Click Sign Up For Windows Live, and follow the directions to establish a Windows Live ID and SkyDrive account If it is your first time on Windows Live, you ll be asked to accept the privacy policy You can also access SkyDrive directly from your browser (http:// wwwskydrivelivecom) Once you have a Windows Live ID, you can simply log in and get access to SkyDrive

SkyDrive, shown in Figure 1-15, contains a number of folders to hold your presentations and other documents Some of these are standard and are in the account at the beginning Others, such as the Business Presentations in Figure 1-15, are your personal folders that you create (See the Understanding SkyDrive Folders QuickFacts) To log on to SkyDrive and create a new folder to hold your documents:

Live or Sign Up to see the SkyDrive window shown in Figure 1-15