Microsoft Office 365 by EckoTango

Microsoft Office 365

Getting Ready to Use Office 365

Microprocessing power For just data and voice: Intel Pentium 500 MHz or

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higher; For video: 1 GHz or higher; For online meetings 1.8 GHz or higher

Memory 512 MB RAM

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Hard-disk space 1.5 MB

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Video card memory 64 MB RAM

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Audio Microphone and speakers, or headset with microphone

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Video Video camera or webcam

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Bandwidth For data only: 56 kbps (kilobyte per second); For data, voice, video,

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and online meetings: 350 kbps

Tip

If you work with team members all over the world—no problem. The early version of the Office 365 Beta was available for users in Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States, but as the program goes to wider release, support for additional countries will be added.

Getting Ready to Use Office 2010 Office 365 offers you different ways to work with the Microsoft Office 2010 applications, depending on what you need to do with the various programs. As part of Microsoft Office 2010, you can access and work with Office Web Apps:

Word Web App

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Excel Web App

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PowerPoint Web App

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OneNote Web App

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Additionally, Outlook Web App enables you to receive and send email, set up meetings, assign tasks, and perform the most common tasks you use in your desktop version of Outlook 2010. Office Web Apps are available to you as part of Office 365 no matter which version you are using. These Web Apps are great for creating, editing, sharing, and reviewing

Chapter 2

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