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How Much Will Office Web Apps Cost?

Office Web Apps are free for consumers through a Windows Live ID and included with volume licenses of Office 2010 for business customers. They provide online editing capabilities for Office documents through a web browser without requiring the full desktop Office applications. While the core editing experience is consistent, SharePoint 2010 is generally a better hosting environment than SkyDrive for business use due to additional enterprise features like administrator control and auditing. Office Web Apps support co-authoring and real-time collaboration on documents stored in SharePoint or SkyDrive.

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How Much Will Office Web Apps Cost?

Office Web Apps are free for consumers through a Windows Live ID and included with volume licenses of Office 2010 for business customers. They provide online editing capabilities for Office documents through a web browser without requiring the full desktop Office applications. While the core editing experience is consistent, SharePoint 2010 is generally a better hosting environment than SkyDrive for business use due to additional enterprise features like administrator control and auditing. Office Web Apps support co-authoring and real-time collaboration on documents stored in SharePoint or SkyDrive.

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4. How much will Office Web Apps cost?

For consumers, Office Web Apps are free on Windows Live, by the use of a free Windows Live
ID.

For business customers, purchasing a volume license edition of Office 2010—Office Professional
Plus 2010 or Office Standard 2010—includes a license for the Office Web Apps. Business
customers can then install and run Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010.

Using Office Web Apps


1. If I use Office Web Apps, do I still need Microsoft Office?

Office Web Apps are online companions to the widely-used Microsoft Office desktop
applications. Use of the Office desktop applications is not required for use of the Office Web
Apps. However, many common usage scenarios will involve use of the Web Apps in conjunction
with the desktop apps—using Office Web Apps for fast, lightweight editing and easy sharing,
and using the desktop applications for deeper editing and full functionality.

2. What are the differences between Office Web Apps on SkyDrive and those on
SharePoint 2010?

Essentially, the experience within Office Web Apps is consistent whether you are using them
from SharePoint 2010 or from Windows Live SkyDrive in a browser on your PC or Mac. However,
there are differences in the host environments that make SharePoint the preferred experience
for most organizations. While it is possible for our business customers to use Office Web Apps
via SkyDrive, we find that most business customers will want to consider the benefits of
deploying Office Web Apps on SharePoint if they are to provide Office Web Apps to their
organization.

 Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010 are best for organizations because they enable the
user to work within the familiar SharePoint experience and provide key enterprise
SharePoint features such as administrator site control, document life cycle management,
auditing, and backup/restore capabilities.

 Office Web Apps on SkyDrive is an ad-supported service.

For more information about using Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010 or on SkyDrive, see the
Platform Comparison section of this guide.

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3. Does Office 2010 give me a better experience with Office Web Apps compared to
earlier versions of Microsoft Office?

Yes, the best experience with the Office Web Apps will come in conjunction with Office 2010
applications or suites.

 Save a file to SkyDrive or a SharePoint 2010 site directly from certain Office 2010
programs.

 Use co-authoring capabilities in Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, or OneNote 2010 to


simultaneously edit files with others when those files are saved in a SkyDrive folder or on
a SharePoint 2010 site.

 Take advantage of the new Broadcast Slide Show feature in PowerPoint 2010 to
broadcast your presentation to a remote audience, who views your slide show in
PowerPoint Web App as you deliver your presentation.

4. Do Office Web Apps enable real-time collaboration?

Yes. You can use Excel Web App and OneNote Web App to edit the same workbook or
notebook at the same time as other people in different locations. You can also simultaneously
edit Word 2010 documents, PowerPoint 2010 presentations, and OneNote 2010 notebooks that
are saved to a SharePoint 2010 site or SkyDrive folder using the Office 2010 applications on your
desktop.

5. In what languages will Office Web Apps be available?

Office Web Apps will be available in all Office 2010 languages: English, Japanese, French,
German, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Russian, Hebrew,
Dutch, Italian, Hindi, Thai, Swedish, Danish, Brazilian, Polish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese,
Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Turkish, Greek, Romanian, Catalan LIP, Slovenian, Slovak, Croatian,
Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Serbian Latin, Kazakh, Basque, and Galician.

SkyDrive does not support Galician and Kazakh, so Windows Live users will see Spanish and
Russian substituted respectively for Galician and Kazakh.

Note that availability of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive will be rolled out on a market-by-market
basis.

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6. How are files saved in Office Web Apps?

Files are saved automatically, as you work, in Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote Web Apps. To
save a file in Word Web App, click the Save button that appears above the File tab or click the
File tab and then click Save.

7. What file types are supported in Office Web Apps?

Office Web Apps save files in the Office 2010 file formats. If you edit files online from versions of
Microsoft Office earlier than 2007 for Windows or 2008 for Mac, Office Web Apps saves a copy
of your file in the Office 2010 formats and leaves the original unchanged in your SharePoint
2010 library or SkyDrive folder.

Following is an overview of supported file types for Office Web Apps:

File Format View in Web App Edit in Web App


Word documents created in Word ’95 and later
docx Yes Yes
doc Yes Converted to docx
docm Yes Yes
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dotm, dotx Yes No


Max file size: 50MB for SkyDrive and none for SharePoint other than configurable file size limits
Excel workbooks created in Excel ’97 or later
xlsx, xlsb Yes Yes
xls Yes, on SkyDrive only Yes, after conversion to xlsx, on
SkyDrive only
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xlsm Yes Yes, with macros stripped
Max file size: 2MB for SkyDrive, 10MB default for SharePoint (admin can configure to up to 2GB)
PowerPoint presentations created in PowerPoint ‘97 or later
pptx, ppsx Yes Yes
ppt, pps Yes Converted to pptx / ppsx
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pptm, potm, ppam, potx, ppsm Yes No
Max file size: 50MB for SkyDrive and none for SharePoint other than configurable file size limits
OneNote notebooks created in OneNote 2010
one - OneNote 2010 Yes Yes
Max file size: 50MB for SkyDrive and none for SharePoint other than configurable file size limits

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Macros do not run.
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If macros exist, you are prompted to create a copy of the file with the macros removed.

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8. How do I print from Office Web Apps?

You can print a document from Word Web App in view mode. To do this, click the File tab on
the command bar and then click Print. (A PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, is
required.) Additionally, when running Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, you can print a PowerPoint
presentation from the File tab in either View or Edit mode. To print from Excel or OneNote Web
Apps, use the print command in your web browser.

9. Can I create new documents with Office Web Apps?

You can create new documents from your host environment for Office Web Apps—either
SkyDrive or SharePoint 2010.

 When using Office Web Apps on SkyDrive and you select the option to create a new
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote file, the file is automatically created in Office Web
Apps.

 When using Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010, if you have Microsoft Office installed
on your computer, new files are always created using your desktop applications. If you
don’t have Microsoft Office on your desktop, you can configure SharePoint 2010 to
create new documents in Office Web Apps – learn how here.

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