If
you have an Outlook.com or Hotmail address, you also have access to
free web app versions of Microsoft Office that you can access from
anywhere. Now Microsoft has added a new feature that makes the apps even
easier to navigate. Let’s check it out.
If
you aren’t familiar with the Office web apps, it’s not surprising. They
are sort of tucked away in Outlook.com. Go your Outlook.com account
and select that little drop-down arrow in the upper-left of your inbox.
You’ll see the option to choose Mail, People, Calendar or Skydrive. Choose Skydrive.
Once in
Skydrive, you’ll see a + symbol. If you select, it you’ll have the
option to create Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and plain text
documents.
I chose to create a Word Document, you can see that it looks pretty familiar if you’re a Word User.
A new
feature that Microsoft has recently added is called “Tell Me.” Say I
want to take a certain action. I can start typing it in the search field
and Word will offer suggestions as to the action I’d like to take. The
wording doesn’t have to be exact and it’s easier than searching through
help.
Selecting
the action applies the action. If I selected “increase indent,” I would
increase the indent of the paragraph I was working on.
If I type
font, I’ll get a drop-down menu with several option. By choosing Font
Color, the menu to change colors appears immediately.
With so many options available in Word, it can often be very confusing
to find what you need. I hope Microsoft considers adding this function
to future Office 365 updates.
~ Sai Kiran
