Discover Microsoft Web Office

This article examines Discover and explains the main developments, practical implications, and context readers should understand.

Discover Overview

You can access the documents and allow other users to leave comments for that document in projects that work collaboratively with many people.

Each document is stored on Live SkyDrive, you see a URL to share documents for everyone.

Create and edit a new document directly on Web Apps

Edit permissions to see who can access the documents and so that they can only read or edit the document.

One thing to note is that you will need to use Office 2007 formats (. Xlsx. Pptx. Docx) or higher. If you want to edit a document in an older format, the website will convert its format.

Microsoft Word

View an MS Word document on Google Chrome

Excel After opening the file, you can click on the edit button to change the document. You can see the use function of the corresponding box on the Home tab.

Of course the functions used are limited

Create a new Workbooks

A new Worksheet

Edit Excel documents on Firefox browser

. On Google Chrome

PowerPoint PowerPoint features on the web are also limited

It has 3 Home tabs, Insert and View with a few basic editing features

You can go to the Slide Show view of a slide show inside a browser window.

Edit PowerPoint on Firefox

Create a new Slide on Google Chrome.

If you want to try Office Live Apps you will need a Windows Live account and some MS Office documents.