■ A First Look at Office Web Apps

reliable Office interface and be able to review, edit, and save the files that are important for your work. This chapter walks you through using Office 2010 Web Apps in Office 365. As you’ll see, creating, editing, and sharing files with your team is a simple process, and Web Apps include all the major tools you use in your favorite Office desktop applications.

As soon as you log in to Office 365, Office Web Apps are within clicking distance. Just below the Team Site area, you’ll see the four Web App icons: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. (See Figure 8-1.) To create a new file using Word, PowerPoint, or OneNote Web App, just click the icon of the program you want to use and type a name for it. The new file will be created in the Documents library of your team site. (Excel Web App works differently—you specify the file name when you turn on the Autosave feature.) If you want to access a file that has been created and shared in the Office 365 team site, click the Shared Documents link in the Team Site area of your Office 365 home page or click the Documents link of any team site.

Click to see documents that are already posted in Office 365.

Click to start a new file in one of the Office Web Apps.