Thursday, November 5, 2015

How To Edit MicrosoftOffice files from within your browser

Following a recent integration with Microsoft Office Online, Dropbox (the free cloud-storage service) now lets you edit any Word, Excel or PowerPoint file from within your browser. This is very useful, especially if you want to edit an Office file that you’ve saved to Dropbox from a PC other than your own.

If you don’t have a Dropbox account, go to www.dropbox.com, click ‘create an account’ and sign up for a free account, which gives you 2GB of storage space. You can either save Office files to Dropbox by dragging and dropping them to the Dropbox website in your browser or by installing the free PC program from www.dropbox.com/install. Once your account is set up, log into the Dropbox website, click the file, then click Open at the top right. The first time you do this you’ll need to click Allow to grant Microsoft Office Online access to your Dropbox files. The file will now open in the relevant Office Online program you’re using. When you’ve finished editing, click ‘Save and return to Dropbox’ at the top left. To download this edited file to your PC, click it in Dropbox, then click the Download option at the top. You can also access it via your Dropbox PC program.

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