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Microsoft Office Integration

SharePoint 2010 is a sophisticated web-based information platform, which stands tall alongside many of Microsoft's accomplishments. The SharePoint platform succeeds in being the central storage hub for enterprise and organization data, engages users in collaboration, and integrates external data to facilitate business intelligence in a modern-day organization. However, SharePoint 2010 is not an island, and Microsoft designed the platform to work alongside and integrate with Microsoft Office—one of the most widely used pieces of software installed on office computers today.

In this chapter I will take the reader on a tour of the main Microsoft Office applications (Office Apps for short), and show ...

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