• New SkyDrive updates make sharing Office docs easier

    Share Office docs on social networks

    Earlier this autumn, we shipped enhancements to Office Web Apps based on your feedback, delivering new features such as the ability to view ink in OneNote Web App, merge and autofit cells in Excel Web App, and print directly from the browser in Excel Web App. Today, the SkyDrive team is announcing some updates that are also based on your requests. Today’s SkyDrive updates will make it easier than ever to share and collaborate on Office documents using Office Web Apps on SkyDrive.

    With today’s SkyDrive improvements, you can share individual files stored on SkyDrive, not just folders. Also, you can easily collaborate on Office documents through SkyDrive with anyone, even if you don’t know their Windows Live ID. You can even share directly with friends on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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  • You asked, we delivered: new Web App features now available

    OneNote Web App displays ink

    On the Office Web Apps team, we are committed to improving our products based on your feedback. Since we launched the Web Apps just over a year ago, we’ve been listening to you, and today we’re releasing new features based on what we’ve heard.

    To everybody who has shared their opinion with us, we want to say a big THANK YOU!

    Here’s what we’re delivering to you today, based on your requests:

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  • Bringing touch editing to Office Web Apps on Windows 8 and iOS tablets

    Touch Technology on Office Web AppsThe Office Web Apps continue to provide access to your documents anywhere in a variety of popular browsers.

    Today, we are excited to introduce you to viewing and editing documents in the Office Web Apps on tablets using "Touch".

    In this blog post, Program Manage Renu Devi, describes the "touch" experience; the design framework that guided development of making the Office Web Apps touchable and responsive to touch; and the technical details that made the editing and viewing tools available in touch-supported browsers.

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  • New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive

     

    The new Office Web Apps are now live across SkyDrive!

    Since first available in 2010, Office Web Apps have ensured that the most common Office tools are always within reach. With just a browser, you can access your documents and communicate and work with anyone, from anywhere. And in this new release you'll see new editing and formatting controls, consistent co-authoring/collaboration support across the web apps and expanded device support, including touch-friendly editing from tablets.  

     

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  • 4 new ways to edit Office documents in your browser

    Office Web Apps format toolbarIf you've been using Office Web Apps for a while, you know that we continually make improvements to them, even since our big update last October. And now that you don't have to sign in, you can try out the 4 latest updates right here, right now.

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  • Webinar: Using the Office Web Apps

    Here is the recording from this week's free Office 15-Minute Webinar about using the Office Web Apps. You can join our webinars live at 9:15 am PDT. Click http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

    1. What are the Office Web Apps and SkyDrive?
    2. Opening, saving, and sharing documents
    3. Why online docs are better
    4. What cool things you...
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  • Touch-friendly viewing of Office documents in smartphone browsers

    Touch viewing on smartphone browsersWith the new Office, we are making document viewing more touch-friendly in browsers on many popular smartphones. We prioritized such touch-enabled viewing so you can easily access and read Office documents on SkyDrive or Office 365 whether you're using a desktop, tablet, or smartphone browser.

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  • Now available: Co-author documents in the Word Web App
    Nearly 50 million people worldwide are using the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive and Hotmail. As we've mentioned on this blog before, we’re always listening to your suggestions about how to improve the Office Web Apps experience. Today, we’re thrilled to announce another new feature based on your requests: You can now co-author in the Word Web App on SkyDrive. Building on the collaboration features already available in Word 2010 and Word for Mac 2011, co-authoring in the Word Web App on SkyDrive...
  • OneNote mobile apps work great with OneNote Web App

    Today, the OneNote team announced an exciting new offering: OneNote Mobile for Android is now available in the Android Market app store!

    OneNote mobile apps are available on a wide variety of platforms, including Windows Phone 7, iPhone, iPad, and now Android. They all work together with OneNote on your desktop and OneNote Web App in your browser.

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  • Clip Art, Charts, Themes and Printing - Need We Say More?
    When we shipped Office Web Apps in June, we set out to make the Office experience more accessible so you could work from anywhere and share with anyone. We love to get input from the people who use Office Web Apps. That feedback helps us decide what features we offer next and when we make those features available. The latest updates to Office Web Apps add some much requested functionality to Word Web App, Excel Web App and PowerPoint Web App. Here's what we added... Word Printing One of the top requests...

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