Creating an Office document via Outlook means that you can take full advantage from the multiple functions and tools offered by Outlook.com. One of those is Skydrive, that not only allows you to upload documents to the cloud, but also create new documents that you and your colleagues can also access anywhere and edit it if necessary. Skydrive has a 7GB capacity to store all your documents and files in the cloud. Today we’ll show you how to create word documents in Outlook.com.
In order to create a Word document in Skydrive, sign in your Outlook.com account. Then, go to Skydrive clicking on the white arrow at the top left of the logo in Outlook. Click on Create, then Word Document.
Write the document name in the box that opens on the screen and click create. In a new page, you’ll see a new blank Word document where you can start working.
While it is true that there’s no access to some of the advanced features of Word in Skydrive, you can run most frequently used actions: write with different text formats, insert a picture from ClipArt, insert a table, page setup, among many others. When you finish your document, save your changes. You can see it on the entry page Skydrive.
If you want to share a document in Skydrive, simply go to the home page, place the cursor on the document name and select it by clicking on the white box that appears in the corner. Then click Sharing in the top of the page. Here you can choose to send it by e-mail to several recipients, post it on your social networks or create a link to share. In all these options you can find another option to grant edit permissions to people who want or simply allow them to read the document but can not make any changes to it.
Using SkyDrive to create a Word document with your Hotmail.com account is the perfect platform to take your work with you wherever you go and share what you want with the people you care, even from social networks.