- [Instructor] If you do not have the full version
of Microsoft Office installed on your computer,
you will probably see an application in your Start Menu
that comes with Windows called Office.
But it's important to clarify what this is.
This is not the full version of the Office applications,
but it can be a nice way to use a limited version
of those applications for free.
I'm going to click on that to launch it.
And first, I want to point out
that I was already signed into my Microsoft account.
Windows had that sign-in information already saved.
If not, I would have been prompted to sign-in
or create a new Microsoft account.
Now the first time you do this,
you'll probably see this prompt asking you to upgrade
to a Microsoft 365 account.
That is a paid service.
It's something you have to pay for on a monthly basis.
And you do not have to do this.
You can just click the X to close it
and you can continue using this for free.
It may ask you if you want to pin the app to the taskbar.
You can do whatever you want here.
I'm just going to click No
and I'm going to close this little tool window.
Now that we're signed in,
we can see that this is really just a shortcut
to the Office website.
On the left side, I can use the Office web apps.
These are versions of the Office applications
that work inside of a webpage.
So let's try one.
I'm going to open up Microsoft Word.
And from here, I could create a new document
and that document will be saved on my OneDrive.
That is the online storage
that's connected to your Microsoft account.
Or I could open a document from this list of recent files,
or I can open an existing document
that I already have saved on my OneDrive.
At the bottom, I could click this button
that says More in OneDrive
to navigate my entire OneDrive and find a file there.
But for now, I'm just going to create a new blank document,
so I'll click on this.
So it opens my web browser,
and now I'm using a limited version of Microsoft Word
in a webpage without installing
the actual Word application on my computer.
To learn more about these web-based apps,
there are courses on LinkedIn Learning,
like Learning Word Online, Learning Excel Online and so on.
For now, I'm just going to close my browser
and I'm going to click this back button in the top left,
and we're back here on this Start screen.
Now I do want to point out
this button that says Install Office.
I'm signed into a free Microsoft account,
so if I click this,
it just prompts me again
to upgrade to a Microsoft 365 account.
And you do have to pay a monthly fee for that,
but a Microsoft 365 account
includes the full versions of the Office applications
that you can download and install on your computer.
In fact, if you sign in with a full Microsoft 365 account,
this Install Office button will let you download
and install those full applications.
So if you do have the full Office applications,
you probably will not see this Office icon
in your Start Menu.
It's really there to give people a limited way
to work with Word, Excel and PowerPoint
without having to pay for anything.