Microsoft Office 365 by EckoTango

Microsoft Office 365

What’s Your Service? Different Setups, Different Services

What’s Your Service? Different Setups, Different Services Office 365 is available in three different versions that are designed to give you just what you need—no more, and no less. Here’s the quick rundown:

Office 365 for Small Business (which is the focus of this book) includes access to

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Office Web Apps, up to 50 user accounts, a 25-GB mailbox for each user, mobile support, the ability to stay in touch with instant messaging, presence technology, audio and video, and team sites with SharePoint Online. The subscription cost for Office 365 for Small Business is $6 per user.

Office 365 Enterprise includes all the features of Small Business as well as the

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full Office Professional Desktop software and pay-as-you-go pricing options. Enterprise users can also add kiosk plans that offer access to email, documents, and team sites in Office 365. Enterprise users can choose from two different subscriptions: existing Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) customers pay $10 per month; enterprise users who want to purchase the pay-as-you-go Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 service pay $24 per month.

Office 365 for Education provides students with access to the Office 365

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s ervices—Office Web Apps, instant messaging, audio and video, and team sites— plus the latest version of Microsoft Live@edu, an online community of thousands of schools. Pricing for Office 365 for Education is $10 for educators and staff; the service is free for students.

IS OFFICE 365 THE NEW OFFICE LIVE SMALL BUSINESS? In a word, yes. If you previously used Office Live Small Business (OLSB) for web creation and hosting, email, marketing, and more, you might be wondering how that service might overlap with Office 365. Office 365 includes all the greatest features of Office Live Small Business, and in late 2011 or early 2012, Microsoft plans to offer existing OLSB users a free transition to Office 365 for three months. After the initial free period, you can continue with your Office 365 for Small Business account for only $6 a month.

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Microsoft Office 365

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Changing Mail Views

Creating a New Message

Checking, Reading, and Responding to Your Mail

■ Checking and Managing Email

■ Introducing Outlook Web App

■ What’s Next

Saving and Sending Your Presentation

Mobile Editing for Your Presentation

■ Tweaking a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Phone

■ Reviewing and Updating Excel Data

Saving and Sending Worksheet Changes

Saving and Sending Your Edited Document

Making Simple Editing Changes

Working with the Worksheet

Editing a Word Document on Your Phone

Formatting Text

■ Last-Minute Word Editing on Your Mobile Device

■ Using the Office Hub on Your Windows Phone 7

■ How Will You Use Your Phone with Office 365?

■ Receiving and Sending Email on Your Phone

■ What’s Next

■ Working with OneNote Notebooks

Another Way to Co-author in Office 365

■ Reviewing and Editing Excel Worksheets

Editing in the Browser

■ Co-authoring with Office Web Apps

■ Choosing Your Tools

■ Working with an Existing File

Editing in Your Web Browser

Taking It to the Desktop

How Office Web Apps Work

■ Creating, Saving, and Closing a New File

Introducing Office Web Apps

■ A First Look at Office Web Apps

Stopping a Workflow

Editing Your Workflow

Completing a Workflow Task

Specifying Task Details

■ Creating a New Workflow

Setting Workflow States

■ Introducing Office 365 Workflows

Checking Out and Checking In Files

Viewing File Properties

Adding a New Column to the Document Library

Creating a New View for Your Document Library

■ Organizing Document Libraries

Modifying the Current View

Ordering Files in Your Document Library

Adding Documents

■ Creating a Document Library

■ Sharing Your Site

■ What’s Next

■ What Is a Document Library (and Where Is It)?

■ Adding Web Parts

■ Adding a New

Adding Text Styles

Editing Your Picture

■ Adding and Formatting Pictures

■ Changing the Text Layout of Your

■ Posting an Update

■ Choosing a Site Theme

■ Putting Some Thought into the Team Site Design

■ What’s Next

■ Creating and Modifying a Website

■ Broadcasting Presentations Online

■ Holding Online Meetings

■ Making Instant Contact with Team Members

■ Translating Content on the Fly

■ Sharing Calendars Securely

Creating a Space for Announcements

Displaying the Team Site

Working with Document Libraries

■ Creating a Shared Space

■ Starting with the End in Mind

■ What’s Next

Creating Service Requests

Checking System Status

Assigning User Permissions