Office Live Workspace hints and tips

webDotWiz has good reason to give you more information on using Office Live Workspace. This type of service which combines files in your documents folder on your hard disk with storage on the Internet (in the cloud to use today’s jargon) is a pointer to the not-to-distant future of software plus service (to use a [...]

Create and share a new Office Live workspace

The first time you open your new workspace at Office Live Workspace (http://workspace.office.live.com) you don’t have any files set up and you need to use the New menu to create new documents or save Excel, PowerPoint or Word documents from your desktop. However, if you want a set of documents for a particular task, all [...]

Office Live Workspace – the New menu – create a List

There are several options on the New menu when you’re in your Documents folder in your Office Live Workspace. The second option is to create a new List. One way to think of this option is that it enables you to create a small database-type of list, e.g. a list all the DVDs you own. [...]

Office Live Workspace – the New menu – create a Note file

There are several options on the New menu when you’re in your Documents folder in your Office Live Workspace. The first option is to create a new Note file which is just a text file in which you can do some basic formatting such as bolding and making a bullet list. This note file – [...]

Office Live Workspace – view contents of a file

Office Live Workspace has a built-in file content viewer so you can browse the contents of Excel, Word and PowerPoint files in your documents workspace. So load your Office Live Workspace in your browser and you’ll have a list of files. Here’s one such list: Now hover your mouse over a file whose contents you [...]

Office Live Workspace – upload multiple files

Here are the steps so you can install the multi-file upload tool and see how it works on your Office Live Workspace. Note: because we’ll be installing an add-on, we need to be in an administrator account on our computer, so if you are the person who’s in control of your computer, log in to [...]

Office Live Workspace – more free online storage

In his last column (here or here) webDotWiz introduced Windows Live Skydrive (http://skydrive.live.com) which gives you 5000 megabytes of free online storage to backup and share your documents, pictures and videos. Now there’s another free service, Microsoft Office Live Workspace (http://workspace.office.live.com), which provides 500 megabytes of online storage for your Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents. [...]

Office Live Workspace available to all

Microsoft Office Live Workspace gives you online storage so you can save your Excel, Word and Powerpoint files on your own workspace. Then you can retrieve these files from wherever you are on the web. Using the Workspace add-in, you can save and open files from the File Menu in Excel, Word and Powerpoint. To [...]