Office 2013 In Depth

Sharing Files Using Homegroup

Chapter 5, “Using the Office Web Apps,” provides a primer on sharing files in the cloud, specifically SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro. Cloud strategies for sharing files are available to every kind of Office user. For example, the home user of Office can take advantage of SkyDrive, the small business user with an Office 365 subscription can save files to SkyDrive Pro, and corporate Office users can share files on a local area network or in the cloud on a SharePoint site.

In the small business or home office environment, you can also share resources on your computer using a homegroup. Sharing files and other computer resources such as printers using a homegroup is just one more way to make it easy to collaborate with other ...