Chapter 25. Using Office in a Web Browser

What Can You Do with Office on the Web?

Storing and Using Office Documents on Windows Live SkyDrive

What You Can and Can’t Do with Office Web Apps

OPENING and saving documents used to be simple. You selected a local hard disk (or a shared network drive) as the destination, and you used folders to keep things organized. If you wanted to take a file to another location, you used removable storage, such as a USB flash drive or a writable CD. And if you forgot to bring the file with you, well, you were out of luck.

Today, thanks to the practically omnipresent Internet, you have options that don’t tie you down to a physical location. You can save any file online (in the “cloud,” as it’s generically known) using ...

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