■ Choosing Your Tools

The familiar Office 2010 ribbon offers you specific sets of tools related to the task you’re performing. If you’ve just added a picture to a document, for example, tools appear in tabs that are related to photo editing. Whether you’re working online in Office 365 or editing a document on your local PC, the tools the Office 2010 application gives you are directly related to the tasks you’re working on. When you’re working with an Office Web App, the same tool management approach enables you to have just what you need on the screen at any given point in time. You’ll find fewer available tools in Office Web Apps, however, because if you want to do some heavy-duty editing, you can open the file in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint; make any necessary changes; and save the file back to your Office 365 SharePoint library. Figure 8-6 gives you a sense of the tools available on the various tabs in Word Web App. As you can see, the tools allow you to add, edit, and format content, as well as switch between views.

FIGURE 8-6 Office Web App offers different sets of tools depending on which tab you click on.