In the upper-right corner, click Sign in.

Get free Outlook email and calendar, plus Office Online apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. However, if you don't sign in at that time, you can always sign in later. Sign in to access your Outlook, Hotmail or Live email account. When you use Office for the first time, it will ask you to sign in to your Microsoft account. If you don't already have a Microsoft account, you can go to the Creating a Microsoft Account lesson in our Microsoft Account tutorial. This option is great for collaboration because multiple people can edit a document at the same time (also known as co-authoring). You can choose whether they can edit or just read the files.

Share files: It's easy to share your OneDrive files with friends or coworkers.

Office Online includes simplified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If youre using Outlook on the web, navigate to. All you need to be your most productive and connected selfat home, on the go, and. From Office and Windows to Xbox and Skype, one username and password connects you to the files, photos, people, and content you care about most.

Edit documents in your web browser: If you're using a computer that doesn't have Microsoft Office, you can use Office Online (previously known as Office Web Apps) to edit documents in your browser for free. To log out of Outlook on your desktop, press Alt + F4 to quit the program, which will automatically log you out. Access your favorite Microsoft products and services with just one login.

This also helps to keep your files safe if anything happens to your computer.

Access your files anywhere: You can save files to your OneDrive, so you'll be able to access them from any computer that has an internet connection.

Here are a few of the things you'll be able to do with your Microsoft account: You can then log in to your Microsoft account to access your OneDrive, which is an online storage space for your documents and other files. To use these features, you'll need to get a free Microsoft account (previously called a Windows Live ID) if you don't already have one. Many of the new features in Office 2013 are geared toward saving and sharing files online.

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