Chapter 8. Office Without Borders: Using Office Documents on the Web

Ever since Microsoft’s belated 1995 realization that the Internet was something big that ought to factor into the company’s plans, they have been cramming the Office suite with Net-friendly features and adding Office-friendly features to Internet Explorer. The goal has always been to blur the previously hard-edged distinction between here—your computer and your LAN—and there—the Web, FTP sites, and other online locations.

In this chapter, you’ll see that Microsoft has succeeded for the most part, and that it’s easy to move documents from offline ...

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