Office Web Apps: Excel

The user interface – even the menu – keeps in theme with Office 2010.

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Office Web Apps: Collaborative editing

When multiple users edit the same document, you can see their details in the bottom-right hand corner.

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Office Web Apps: OneNote

OneNote will be an interesting one, especially with touch integration. Whether we will see the full potential through the web application, we shall see.

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Office Web Apps: SkyDrive

Just type in the name of the new file and it creates it in your Documents folder.

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Office Web Apps: PowerPoint

From there, you are given a blank canvas where you can perform many of the same actions – albeit the most “essential” actions – in the web application.

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Office Web Apps: PowerPoint

But still, even in this stage, things can go wrong.

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Office Web Apps: Editing

Some parts of Office Web Apps don’t work yet. Instead of providing full access which may not work properly, they are waiting so those using it have a constant positive experience than a buggy one.

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Office Web Apps: Excel

As with Excel 2010, you can select and drag things about. This shows a very Web 2.0 experience and the quality gone into the product so far.

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Office Web Apps: PowerPoint and Silverlight

If Silverlight is detected on the users computer, it will be utilised to show animations and transition effects in the PowerPoint Web App.

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Office Web Apps: PowerPoint and Silverlight

However if no Silverlight is present, it will generate new PNG images on the server and display them on screen.

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Office Web Apps: Word

You can add images, different formatting, tables and watermarks as well as a whole load of other things.

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Office Web Apps: Word

If Silverlight is installed, it will allow you to zoom in seamlessly. If not, it will generate a zoomed in PNG image file on the server and display it on your screen.

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Office Web Apps: Word

As with Word 2010, in the Word Web App you can search for things in the document.

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Office Web Apps: Word

If you are near to a printer or using the Word Web App away from home, you can still print out as you normally would.

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Office Web Apps: SkyDrive

SkyDrive has been updated with new icons, but also gives you the ability to share your documents with other people and modify their permissions so they can work on specific areas.

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Office Web Apps: PowerPoint

This PowerPoint presentation isn’t utilising Silverlight. Instead, the image of the slide is being projected from the SkyDrive server instead. It looks no different to the untrained eye, but will run much slower.

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Office Web Apps: Word

Many of the features that are most needed in offline Word are provided in the online version – Word Web App.

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