Office and the Web

MS Office Word builds on the Web-authoring capabilities of its predecessor, MS Office XP. With a few exceptions, you can choose to save most types of Office documents in HTML, the language of the Web. When you use the HTML format, your Word documents, Excel workbooks, or PowerPoint presentations take on an extra dimension: Anyone with a compatible Web browser can open the saved file and see your document just as you created it (subject to some formatting limitations, which we discuss later in this chapter); anyone who has installed the Office program that was used to create the original document can open the file for editing as well.

This magic works courtesy of the XML and style tags embedded within the original document. Even' bit of data and formatting is preserved during the "round-trip" from Office program to Web page and back again. You can create and modify documents using Office programs, publish them as Web pages, and know that you'll still be able to make changes to the underlying document.

MS Office Word also incorporates the capability to save "filtered" Web pages, which strip away MS Office-specific tags and leave behind only basic HTML. This feature, which is not available in any other MS Office program, produces a smaller, less complex HTML file that displays approximately the same formatting as the original page; however, you lose the capability to read the file back into Word and retrieve all formatting.

There are several new and advanced features are now added in the latest MS office software programs.  In order to learn more about these features and programs you could visit the office website of Microsoft or Office Microsoft.

Questionnaire:

• Explain about the MS office and the Web.
• Explain About the HTML and MS office.