Improved Accessibility is one the most important advantages of cloud computing. With Microsoft Office Web Apps users can create, edit, share, view and work on documents online. Since its release in 2010, Microsoft has been persistently bringing new features in order to improve user experience.

Until now, Microsoft Office Web Apps was available to users through Windows Live and to business customers with Microsoft Office 2010. Now with mobile version of Microsoft Office Web Apps (Office Mobile Viewers), Android and iOS users can also use Microsoft Office Web Apps through their mobile browsers.

Microsoft Office Web Apps as a part of Office 365 suite

Microsoft Office Web Apps is a part of Office 365 plans. With Office 365, businesses can virtually access office tools, emails and many other IT services almost from anywhere.

Microsoft Office Web Apps facilitates users to work efficiently on the cloud enabling users to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF documents in a web browser. However, it is not included by default in the Office 365 plans. With an internet connection you can access your files almost from any device.

Apart from Office 365, Office Web Apps is available to you :

• While you are accessing files from your organization's libraries.
• While you are accessing your documents through SkyDrive.com in a Home Premium plan.
• While you are using Windows Live.
• While you are accessing documents on a SharePoint Environment provided, you have Office Web Apps configured on the server. (Note: A business, in order to run Office Web Apps, should be licensed for Microsoft Office 2010. Office Web Apps can be executed on a server that runs Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010).
• When you want to access Word, Excel, PowerPoint or One Note files on your mobile, iPad or a tablet device. All you need is your mobile browser since Office Web Apps has a browser-based editing and viewing features.

Microsoft Office Web Apps include:

• Word Web App
• Excel Web App
• PowerPoint Web App
• One Note Web App
• Outlook Web App
• Lync Web App

The editing features of each web app have been maintained similar to corresponding Microsoft Office Program.

Features of Microsoft Office Web Apps

Microsoft Office Web Apps has several features, important among them are as described below:

Document Management

With Office Web Apps viewing, editing and sharing of documents online becomes easier. You have your documents, presentations, workbook or notebook just a click away. View them in browser, make changes in a snap, or, if you want additional features you may even open the files in the corresponding Microsoft Office program on your desktop.

Document Co-authoring/Collaboration

Office Web Apps has been recently adorned with co-authoring capabilities which enables two or more users to edit the same Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote file at the same time from various locations. This speeds up work as the changes are updated in real-time.

Office Web Apps offers excellent collaboration features that ensure users to stay on the same page. Office Web Apps exhibits this important aspect of the cloud. With a cross-platform browser support it becomes easier for users using different devices and platform to collaborate well.

Offline Document Syncing

One of the most powerful features of Microsoft Office Web Apps is offline document syncing. No matter if you lose your internet connection and if you are still making changes to your file. Once the connection is restored the changes will happen within a few seconds and Voila! Update your file anytime and make them available on the cloud. You can even safeguard your content from unexpected loss by taking a backup.

Accessibility

Microsoft Office Web Apps makes the files easily available online from any device. With the cross-platform browser-based support, user can access documents from his desktop or a hand-held (mobile or tablet) device on the go. The app extends its support for Android and IOS users as well.

Microsoft Office Web Apps offer a pleasant user experience. For users using Microsoft Office, working with Office Web Apps is totally at-home experience for them. As Microsoft consistently adds new capabilities to Office Web Apps, we anticipate advanced features bringing in more ease in collaborating and managing files on the cloud.

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