Top tips for Word Online

Here are the top tips to help you get the most out of Word for the web. Learn how to get started, save your work to OneDrive, add and review comments, edit, and print.

Upload personal documents to OneDrive

• Storing your documents online gives you access to them anywhere, on multiple devices.

• Online documents are also easier to share because you can link to them instead of sending email attachments.

• As an added bonus, you can read and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote documents in a web browser if they are stored in an online location, like OneDrive.com

1. Sign in with your Microsoft account at OneDrive.com. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up for one (You can use your own email address, or sign up for a new one as part of your new Microsoft account).

2. On the OneDrive page, click Upload near the top of the page, and upload your files.

Save changes

• Word for the web saves your changes automatically while you work. Look on the status bar at the bottom left corner of Word for the web.

  It will either show Saved, or Saving.

Share documents online

• Because your document is online, you can share it by sending a link instead of an email attachment. People can read it in their web browser, or mobile device.

• Click FILE > Share > Share with People.

Find and replace text

• Quickly search for every occurrence of a specific word or phrase in your document by clicking HOME > Find (or type Ctrl+F). Results appear next to your document so you can see the term in context.

  Clicking on a search result jumps you to that occurrence. Click Replace (or type Ctrl+H) to find and replace text.

Print in Word for the web

• Go to FILE > Print. Word for the web sends your document to a PDF reader, where all the layout and formatting of your document will print the way you expect.

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