Windows 7 / Getting Started

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Office Live Add-In

The Office Live Add-in consists of two services, Office Live Workspace and Office Live Small Business. It is available for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but not for Windows XP.

Office Live Workspace

With Office Live Workspace, you can manage documents from remote locations without schlepping a USB drive from computer to computer. After you install Office Live Update, you can directly access workspaces from Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Files can't be edited from within the workspace, but clicking Edit opens them up in the relevant package. To prevent simultaneous overwriting, documents are checked out and checked in.

Office LiveWorkspace allows you to edit documents from anywhere and share those documents with other people you choose.

With Office Live Workspace, you can save up to 5GB of information. This can save you from using USB drives or CDs as a storage solution and lets you update project schedules, organize events, and delegate assignments without scheduling a meeting or relying on email.

Office Live Workspace users can share multiple documents and collaborate online as a group. Workspaces are password-protected, and users can control who views and edits information. Files or workspaces can be shared with up to 100 people.

Office Live Workspace also allows users to store documents of file types other than those generated by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. After the Office Live update is installed, you can open files from Microsoft Office XP, 2003, or 2007 and store them directly. You can also synchronize contacts, tasks, and event lists with Outlook 2003 and 2007 and export workspace lists to Excel.

Office Live Small Business

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is an Internet-based service designed so that nontechnical web users can create a professional-looking website, manage contacts with customers, and utilize a storage area for documents and other files to make them easy for collaboration.

Even if you're not a highly technical user,Office Live Small Business will help you create a professional website.

Live Small Business provides access to free online web design tools and templates for website development. Site Designer lets you use page layouts, colors, navigation, and other site elements. You can also add modules such as PayPal buttons, blogs, and calendars to pages. Microsoft provides free website hosting and 5GB of storage space for site files, and you can buy more storage space if needed. However, as of 2010, Microsoft will charge an annual fee for website development registration.

With Office Live Small Business, you can select and register domain names and business email addresses. If you already have a domain name with another provider, you can redirect it to Office Live Small Business. Up to 100 domain-based email accounts are allowed at no charge.

The Contact Manager organizes customer information, contact histories, and sales information in one place, with data accessible by permission to entire organizations.

The Team Workspace creates a password-protected project website for posting information to share with customers, employees, or business partners. It helps streamline the editing process and gives remote users access to company data.

Use the TeamWorkspace to post information to share with customers, employees, or business partners.

Microsoft offers 24-hour technical phone support at no charge for 30 days. Online, the Community site includes a blog, a wiki, articles, how-to videos, and a customer question and answer space. Office Live Small Business user data is stored on the Microsoft network and is automatically backed up daily.