Viewing is cool too

re: Viewing is cool too

Hernan Ramirez from Argentina — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:16:14 GMT

Hi!

All links between documents, open with Office Word Client.

Is any way to link to other document and it open with web apps. word viewer ?

Help!!

Thanks

Please response to hernan.ramirez@errepar.com

re: Viewing is cool too

Bill Coan — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:15:38 GMT

Roxanne,

You wrote, "And what difference does browser-based viewing make? ... It turns out, it is a big deal."

I heartily agree, and I think you are correct to make the point. I had the privilege of experiencing the web apps during an earlier tech preview, and I was struck by this same point.

It's a surprising point. That is, I don't think most users realize how gratifying it will be to do what the web apps allow you to do.

During the tech preview, I reported my reaction as follows:

"It was very gratifying to see my documents rendered full-fidelity-wise on the screen, in my browser. Very gratifying: no muss, no fuss, and very pleasing to the eye. Do I like seeing my Word docs rendered beautifully within my browser? Yes, it's a thrill. For me, it was as though the distinction between paper and my screen had suddenly gone away. Very nice."

Bill Coan

billcoan@wordsite.com

re: Viewing is cool too

Peter Engrav — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:15:07 GMT

Borek - I wish I could put a picture in the comment (or perhaps that OneNote Web App had shipped and this whole blog could be a big Notebook? I digress...) But arbitrarily complicated Word and PowerPoint documents look pretty much perfect in the corresponding Web App viewers. In these two cases (where "Hi Fidelity" means "looks exactly like it's supposed to") we render the pages/slides using either Silverlight (if you have it installed) or PNG images.

re: Viewing is cool too

Marc — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:14:03 GMT

For those of us in the SMB arena, is there anyway to integrate the office online experience?

re: Viewing is cool too

Borek — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:13:46 GMT

I'd be interested to see how the document with an image in the middle of the text would look like. This is something nearly impossible to achieve in HTML but can be authored easily in Word. Can you show us a screenshot of this?

re: Viewing is cool too

Nick Simons — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:13:15 GMT

The viewing experience varies in each of the Office Web Apps. Word Web App and PowerPoint Web Apps both have very high fidelity viewers that will show SmartArt and Shapes (I assume that an autoshape is what is now called a Shape).

re: Viewing is cool too

Nicholas Hebb — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:12:40 GMT

Will autoshapes and SmartArt be supported in the Office Web Apps?