There they are over here with OneDrive selected. And I have some folders, under recent folders. Now if you're already signed in and you're not quite sure how it happened, it could've happened when you installed Microsoft Office and you provided your account information, got you connected to your OneDrive. And when I click Next, I'll be prompted for my password. I'm going to use my hotmail address, which is used just for these purposes.
Word mac save as onedrive plus#
Click the plus sign and you'll see sign in options for OneDrive, that's the cloud or even SharePoint if you have that. And notice I don't have any options online, I can only save to my Mac.
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Clicking save to cloud opens up the Save As window, same as going to File and Save As. That means if I go up to File, down to Share and invite people to share this document it's going to say I need to save it to the cloud first. Once signed out, if I go up to Word sure enough there's not sign out option meaning I'm not connected.
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Word mac save as onedrive how to#
So I'm going to sign out and show you how to get in. If you don't see sign out here, it means you're not logged in. It can be a Windows Live account, a hotmail account even a SharePoint account. If I go up to the Word menu I see that I can sign out, which means I am signed in to my account. And before we can share it, by sending it to OneDrive, we need to be connected. But if I wanted to allow people to access this document simultaneously I would need to save it there and share it with them by sending out a link to the file. With you Microsoft account you get access to some storage space in the cloud, in your own personal OneDrive, you can buy more if you need it. We are going to look at many different options for sharing, beginning with the cloud or OneDrive. Everybody updating and making changes and then you can choose whether or not to accept or reject those. Another option is to share using the cloud, and by doing that many people can have access to the same file at the same time. Meaning you have several copies of your document out there that need to have changes tracked or compare. Well that's if you share your documents the old fashion way, sending out attachments.
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In the previous chapter if you were following along we looked at ways to collaborate on a document with others by tracking changes, comparing different versions of the same document, even combining them into a new document.