Microsoft Office 365 Online Interface

Signing In

In any Web browser on any platform, login with your Carleton-Microsoft account at portal.office.com. 

These "Office for the web" apps run totally inside your Web browser, requiring no installation on the computer you are using. They may not have all the same features as the Office 365 ("desktop") applications, or they may have more because they are upgraded more frequently. The list under "Explore all your apps" is dynamic, with new apps being added occasionally.

Using Office Online

1. To open a document on your local computer, use the “Upload and open…” button.
2. To create a new document, use the down arrow of the red New button.
3. Save a recent document to your local computer from OneDrive.
4. For help using an Office Online app, click the ? icon at the upper right, between the gear icon (Settings) and your avatar or initials.
5. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents shared in OneDrive or Dropbox can be edited collaboratively by multiple authors at once, which Microsoft calls "real-time co-authoring" or "simultaneous editing".

Online Storage

This online, web-browser-based, environment is analogous to G Suite (formerly Google Apps), but works more like familiar versions of Office and integrates with Dropbox, which G Suite does not.

However, this online environment prefers to open and save documents in OneDrive, but can also use Dropbox directly. Both storage spaces support live, simultaneous editing by multiple people