Office Online

Office Online is an online counterpart of the world’s most popular productivity suite Microsoft Office. Hosted on Office.com, these lightweight web applications can enable users from all four corners of the world to use their favorite Office productivity applications from any device. This includes not only famous apps such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint but also collaboration-focused services from Microsoft such as OneNote, One Drive, Outlook and Teams.

Built for speed, ease of use, and perfect compatibility with all Office document types, Office Online is a perfect solution for everyone who wishes to access the document, spreadsheet, and presentation editing on any internet-connected screen they have.

It is important to note that while access to all of these apps is 100% FREE to every owner of the Microsoft user account, Office Online versions of productivity apps are a bit downscaled from their full local or Office 365 (also known as Microsoft 365) counterparts. Nevertheless, It can provide invaluable service to everyone from home to business users. Most demanding users can even elect to download and integrate Office Online Server into their local cloud infrastructure, thus ensuring that they can retain access to the Office Online suite even in the event of internet connection loss.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web can all effortlessly create, open, edit and save a wide array of Office document format types (Office Open XML files (docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, od, doc, xls, and ppt). However, a few popular formats such as CSV and HTML cannot be opened, and PDF files can be opened but with no 100% guarantee for perfect accuracy in their formatting. To maximize the potential of these apps, Microsoft has included the option for full online collaboration (real-time editing and auto-saving) with the help of the OneDrive syncing. Since Office Online is tied to the Microsoft account, all its users get free access to 25GB of storage space on OneDrive.

It can be accessed 100% FREE from any compatible internet browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). The suite supports the expansion of its capabilities via browser addons, and an upgrade to the fully-featured Office suite is available by purchasing a valid Office 365 license.