Opens every file punch in that MS Office desktop apps support.

Saves your work automatically.

Familiar interface similar to desktop versions.

Microsoft Office online apps menu

Excel Online.

Files must exist in OneDrive before being used.

Spell check doesn’t always work.

Can’t always save back to the original format.

MS Office Excel online

Excel Online.

This is how you access Excel online, or Word, or Outlook, etc.

They don’t even need their own Microsoft account.

Microsoft Office Online vs. Microsoft Office

The desktop version of Office is similar to the online one.

They both contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

The major limitation relates to the fullness of the feature set.

There’s presently no online version of Access or Publisher.

Common file formats are allowed, and every single format that Office supports is supported in the online version.

However, there’s a major difference in the way Office Onlineusesthese files compared to the desktop version.

Say you’re working with someone else on a DOC file that was created in a program likeSSuite Office.