Office and the Web

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Suppose you have product specifications written with Microsoft Word that you want to share with your team, upper management, engineering, and other product teams. And you also have Microsoft PowerPoint slide presentations, a cost analysis done in Microsoft Excel, and sales summaries done in Microsoft Access. You can share information with many people (who do not all share the same applications) by adding hyperlinks to your files. If not everyone in your audience has all the Office applications, they can still jump to most files they need and view Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files by using the special viewers with these applications.

About the World Wide Web and Intranets

What is the World Wide Web?   The World Wide Web is a major component of the Internet, which is a vast global network of smaller networks and personal computers. Web pages include hyperlinks and present information in a graphical format that can incorporate text, pictures, sounds, and digital movies. Web pages are created in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format, which is a special system for tagging a file so that it can be interpreted by Web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. A browser enables virtually any type of computer to read HTML files.

What is an intranet?   An intranet is a special type of Web that is available only to the users of a particular local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), such as those often used by companies and organizations for internal communication. With an intranet, employees can share confidential, work-related information without making it available to the public.

Use Office applications you’re familiar with   When you use Office applications with your intranet, you can work with Office files in their native format, rather than having to convert them to HTML format. For example, when you open a Word document with the Web toolbar, you will see the Word toolbars, and you’ll be able to work with the document in the same way that you would any other Word document. You won’t be limited by the viewing features of a particular browser.

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Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Web and Office in Help.