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Join the Invite-Only Office Live Web Apps Preview Today [Office 2010]

Source: Lifehacker

Sep 21, 2009

Summary

Microsoft Office Web Apps will bridge the gap between your desktop Office documents and the web, but it's currently in an invite-only preview. However, the always clever Amit Agarwal at weblog Digital Inspiration discovered a simple trick that'll score you an invite.

As you can see in the video above, all you've got to do is log into Microsoft's SkyDrive using a Live.com account (if you don't already have one, registering is free) and then uploading any Microsoft Word doc. When the upload completes, SkyDrive will ask you if you want to join the Office Web Apps preview program (see the screenshot below).

Once you've joined, you'll be able to view any uploaded Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation from your browser in Microsoft's (currently barebones) online offerings. Word documents are currently read-only, but Excel docs and PowerPoint presentations are fully editable. If you're eager to try out the preview, this simple trick does the job nicely.