Thread: Office Web Apps 2010

The major feature in the Office 2010 is the addition of Office Web Apps. Office Word App lets you create, edit, and save Word documents. Office PowerPoint App lets you create and edit presentations from the web. You can even pick themes and slide layouts. You can also insert animations, pictures, charts, and tables into existing PowerPoint presentations. Office Excel web application allows you to create, edit and, save workbooks. You can even use the same formulas online like in the client version of the program. All these applications have inbuilt Auto-correct and background spell checking.Web App also encompasses Multi-user co-authoring. With all this, something very important is missing. There is no automatic synchronisation of files between the Web-based version of Office and the client version. This can potentially be very confusing; you can end up with different versions of the some document in different locations on your PC and the web and simply not know which the latest version is.



You wouldn't want to use Office Web Apps instead of a full desktop version given the choice but they'll be great when you're away from your home computer. And it is Microsoft's first direct take at Google Docs.