Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Much like the almost killed Google Docs Viewer  which can let you open popular file formats including Word, Excel & Powerpoint documents hosted on the web within the browser , the Office Apps Viewer can display Office document formats. With Google Docs Viewer, you had to append the URL of a web hosted document as a value to the url field - https://docs.google.com/viewer?url= http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf With the Office Apps Online Viewer, you similarly have to provide the URL of a web hosted document  as a value to the  src  field. I randomly picked some publicly available online Office documents to show examples. Click on the links below to see the Office Apps Online Viewer in action - https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src= www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/docs/usph101.pptx https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src= kdla.ky.gov/librarians/Documents/Sick%20Leave%20Policy.doc https://view.officeapps.live.c...

1. Open the document or spreadsheet to be copied to OneDrive, within Google Docs / Drive 2. From the menu, choose File > Email as Attachment... 3. In the dialog box that opens, choose to attach the file as .docx or .xlsx as appropriate and email it to your Microsoft account 4. When the email is opened within Outlook.com , click on the button View in OneDrive to view & save that file in OneDrive to view it in Word Online or Excel Online