Chapter 7. Connecting Office 2013 to SkyDrive and Other Online Services

What happens when you sign in with an Office account?

Saving, sharing, and syncing Office documents with SkyDrive

Using Office Web Apps

Editing a shared document in real time

SOME OF the most interesting and useful new features in Office 2013 involve its deep connections to online services. By signing in using a Microsoft account, you gain access to a generous allotment of free online storage, and your Office settings roam with you as you move from one device to another. You can save a Word document on your desktop PC, for example, and then resume editing it on a tablet, with the Office Roaming Service telling Word exactly where you left off.

Saving documents in SkyDrive and synchronizing ...

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