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Office Web Apps

• Webinar: Getting things done with Office Web Apps

  15 Apr 2013

  You can access and share Office documents with browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Learn some of the basics and the latest features of these free tools. Can't see this video? It's also available at Microsoft Showcase ? Need a sneak peek? Here's a 30-second trailer . What you...
• Office Web Viewer: View Office documents in a browser

  10 Apr 2013

  Do you have Office documents on your website or blog that you want your readers to view even if they don't have Office installed? Would you rather view a document before downloading it? To give your audience a better experience, try the Office Web Viewer. What is the Office Web Viewer? It's a service...
• 4 new ways to edit Office documents in your browser

  21 Feb 2013

  If 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. Copy and paste pictures from the web Find a picture on...
• Sign-in no longer required to edit Office docs in SkyDrive

  8 Feb 2013

  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. To share your document this way, you just need to get a link and send it: 1. In your SkyDrive, right-click...
• New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive

  22 Oct 2012

  The new Office Web Apps are now live! Thanks to all 750,000 of you who have helped put the Office Web Apps Preview through its paces since it went live in July. This scale of use and thousands of pieces of feedback prior to general availability has helped us tweak and improve the quality of the latest...
• Touch-friendly viewing of Office documents in smartphone browsers

  1 Oct 2012

  Last month we introduced new touch editing experiences for Windows 8 and iOS tablets. You can read more on that here . With this release, we'll continue to offer a view-only experience on most smartphones, but we are also making document viewing more touch-friendly in browsers on many popular smartphones...
• Bringing touch editing to Office Web Apps on Windows 8 and iOS tablets

  20 Aug 2012

  We introduced the new Office Web Apps a few weeks ago. We've added new features, improved the performance of our apps and continue to provide access to your documents anywhere in a variety of popular browsers. Today, we are excited to introduce you to a new dimension for input - Touch - to bring the...
• Building Advanced Editing in Word Web App

  2 Aug 2012

  This is the first post in a weekly series from the Office Web Apps engineering team diving deeper into the next release of Office Web Apps. As Mike Morton mentioned a couple weeks ago in his new Office Web Apps blog post, improved authoring is one of the core scenarios for this release. In this post...
• Video: The new Office Web Apps - Overview and Demos

  2 Aug 2012

  Watch this short video for a quick overview of what is new in the Office Web Apps, how the new Office Web Apps Server works, and enjoy demos along way! < What is new in the Office Web Apps Demo of Word Web App and PowerPoint Web App Demo of co-authoring between PowerPoint Web App and PowerPoint 2013...
• Cure for Attachment Disorder

  18 Jan 2012

  You send out an Office document for feedback, and get back umpteen versions back with lots of comments. Some of your recipients don't have the same Office program as you and so can't open it. There's a way to avoid the headaches of attaching documents to email. Just start storing your documents on SkyDrive...
• Get Guy Kawasaki's tips on starting a business

  9 Jan 2012

  Who hasn't dreamed of quitting your desk job and starting your own business? It's a new year. Isn't it time to make your dreams reality? 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...
• New SkyDrive updates make sharing Office docs easier

  29 Nov 2011

  Today's post is by Jenni French, product manager on the Office Web Apps team. 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...
• Setting the pace in cloud productivity

  29 Nov 2011

  Today's post is by Jenni French, product manager on the Office Web Apps team. Today, Microsoft is announcing updates to our cloud offerings for productivity on Office 365 and on SkyDrive. Office Web Apps is an important part of Microsoft’s cloud productivity solutions, and as a team we’re...
• You asked, we delivered: new Web App features now available

  29 Sep 2011

  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...
• Clip Art, Charts, Themes and Printing - Need We Say More?

  23 Aug 2010

  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...
• Chrome, Hotmail, and Office 2010

  15 Jun 2010

  Office 2010 goes public today! A lot of the work we did in Office Web Apps is a part of the Office 2010 release and we are really excited. Last year I wrote about some of the ways Office Web Apps and Office 2010 complement each other. When we announced our browser support we heard from many of you that...
• Office Web Apps Now Available on Windows Live

  7 Jun 2010

  We are excited to announce that today Office Web Apps are available on Windows Live. The initial release is available to Windows Live customers in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland with support for English, Spanish (USA) and French (Canada). More languages and locales will be added over the...
• Using Office Web Apps to Create New Files

  24 Mar 2010

  Office Web Apps can be installed as part of a SharePoint deployment. Also, Office Web Apps will be available on Windows Live SkyDrive. One difference between Office Web Apps in these two environments is how you create new files. Creating Files on SkyDrive On SkyDrive you will be able to create a new...
• Office Web Apps Accessibility

  18 Jan 2010

  One of my core responsibilities during the development of Office Web Apps has been to ensure that the apps are accessible to people with disabilities. Given that the Office Web Apps are web versions of productivity tools our primary focus is on supporting people who are blind, people with reduced vision...
• A Perfect Match: Office Web Apps and the Office Desktop Clients

  11 Dec 2009

  When I talk to customers, they frequently ask, "If I have Office [the desktop apps], then why would I use the Office Web Apps?" It’s a fair question. Office is an extremely powerful and efficient set of productivity tools. I use Office every day. But the Office Web Apps have changed the way I think...