What are Office Web Apps?

Microsoft Office Web Apps are Microsoft Office Live products that exceed Office product experience to web browsers. Office Web Apps allow you access, edit or share Office documents from anywhere thru internet.

How can I get Office Web Apps?

For personal use, Office Web Apps are free for personal use ( with ADs). All web documents are stored in Windows Live SkyDrive. You will have a Windows Live ID in order to access your web documents. Checkout my previous post on how to Save OneNote directly to SkyDrive.

For business use, Office Web Apps can be deployed to SharePoint server 2010 sites. Detail installation guide can be download from Microsoft Microsoft Download Center

Which browsers are supported for Office Web apps?

• Internet Explorer 7 and 8
• Firefox 3.5
• Safari 4

In order to sync OneNote 2010 notebooks to SkyDrive and use OneNote Web Application, you will need have Internet Explorer 7 or later version installed.

• Windows XP with IE8
• Windows Vista with IE7 or IE8
• Windows 7 with IE8

Also notebooks files from OneNote 2007 needs to be upgraded to OneNote 2010 file format as only 2010 format is supported by SkyDrive. You can convert old notebooks to 2010 format by

1. File –> Info –> Setting –> Properties
2. Click ‘Convert to 2010’ button and press okay.

SkyDrive is live with OneNote Sync, you can now go to Office.live.com and start upload your OneNote files. Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are available free for personal use.

When you creating New Notebook in OneNote 2010, you can now save it to SkyDrive directly, the web option which was always "not available" is now available. To get start, you will need to have a Windows Live ID, and sign in when you are asked to. Notebooks will be automatically synced among different OneNote clients if they are online.

You can also create other types of office documents on Office.live.com directly, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Troubleshot Tips

We are sorry. This service is currently not available

This is because you are using a pre-release version (either BETA or RC). OneNote Sync with SkyDrive only works with OneNote 2010 RTM edition. Upgrade to OneNote 2010 and you should no longer see this message.

Unable to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive

Open IE, go to IE Internet Options, clear browse history, passwords, cookies. And then retry.