One of Google's justifiable criticisms of Microsoft's Office-based cloud play was it's hard to figure out what you can and can't do with Office Web Apps -- the Webified versions of Word ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

or do you? Microsoft makes a free version of Microsoft Word available for anyone to use on the web. You have to register a Microsoft account, but that's free too. As the app works entirely ...

More isn't always better. Depending on your needs, this might just be the case with the free version of Microsoft 365. Let's ...

While Google Docs might be the first online word processor that comes to mind for most of us, it's by no means the only option out there on the web—and one of the best alternatives is the free ...

(I would sometimes leave a “dummy” file in OneDrive that I could edit as a “new” document with the web apps.) Word appears to be the most convenient to use, though the ad-supported version ...

Microsoft has for many years teased a simplified version of the Ribbon that hides most of the commands to reduce clutter. That simplified Ribbon is available in the Word web app, but there’s ...

This is how you can get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for free on a Windows 11/10 PC. I hope you find this useful. Yes. Microsoft 365 for the web offers free versions of Office productivity ...

Word, it turns out, can transform any recording into a transcript in just a couple of clicks. The problem is that this feature is hidden in the web version of Word—you won’t find it in the ...

a menu choice in Word for Windows might be named differently from the same option in the web version of Word. In these cases, I’ve tried to include both names. You may still find instances where ...

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Word includes editing and markup tools for sharing and editing among teams, and the latter Office/Microsoft 365 versions of the program do allow for web-based editing and sharing. Microsoft ...