The Excel team has released some new technology to allow developers to create mashups using Excel, powered by the Excel Web App.

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Now you can share your documents so that others can edit them hassle-free, without signing in to a Microsoft account. This works for all four Office Web Apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Read on to start sharing now.

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Office Web Apps has partnered with author, venture capitalist, and tech influential @Guy Kawasaki to show you how to do just that. His exclusive posts will offer tips and templates to guide you through.

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Today the Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) became available in 15 new countries including China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey. These additions bring the total number of countries to 26 – making the Web Apps available to more than 1/3 of all earthlings. Australia Austria Belgium Canada China (new) Denmark (new) Finland (new) France Germany Hong Kong (new) Ireland Italy...

When I talk to people about how Office Web Apps provide “browser-based viewing and editing” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files, the thing people immediately get excited about is the “editing” part. That’s understandable: browser-based editing is new for Office, and editing is what makes “information workers” feel productive. Viewing – we’ve been viewing documents since people etched things on stone. Old hat. Boring. And what difference...

We're all inclined to over share now and then. Did I really need to see that nineteenth picture of your cat, hear all of your cold symptoms, or endure you belting out Diana Ross songs at that karaoke bar? We understand that sometimes there's oversharing. But a lot of what you do every day depends on being able to get other people's input or show off a finished product. With the Office Web Apps, you have more choices for sharing Office documents without having to learn a new tool. When you just need...

On the Office blog we announced some significant milestones and highlighted the new functionality we have introduced over the last few weeks... In just over 100 days since we launched, more than 20 million people have used Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. Today we're releasing more new features—based on your feedback (more than 25,000 comments so far)—and we're making Office Web Apps available in 7 more...

We recently announced a number of additions to Office Web Apps. Many of these additions were a direct result of customer feedback. One of the changes I didn’t mention in the last post was providing some support for indenting the first line of a paragraph in Word Web App. Before the change, pressing the TAB key did nothing or indented the entire paragraph depending on the position of your cursor. With the change pressing the TAB key does this (without the big red arrow)… We made this...

On SkyDrive we just enabled the ability for you to embed Excel content and PowerPoint presentations in websites such as your blog. For details on how to do this check out the blog post dedicated to Excel and the blog post dedicated to PowerPoint . Here is an example of an embedded PowerPoint presentation from my own SkyDrive: Here's an example of an embedded Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator, using the Excel Web App also posted on the Office blog . Enter your own height and weight to find out your...

Chris Bryant from Office spends 20 minutes showing Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App and Word Web App in action. The demos focus on the experience in Windows Live but Chris also talks about the other ways that we are delivering Office Web Apps to customers. Enjoy! Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps