5. Working with the Office Web Apps

We have all found ourselves in situations while we’re on the road or just away from the office when we would like to be able to look at a Word document recently completed by a colleague or an Excel workbook that we prepared but didn’t save to our laptop. Now Microsoft Office 2010 offers a solution to this problem with the Office Web Apps. Not only do the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Web Apps enable you to view files created using your installed versions of the Office 2010 applications, but the Web Apps also provide you with the capability of editing Office files, creating new Office files, and sharing files with other users online (including yourself).

In this chapter, we look at what the Web Apps can actually ...

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