These are the accounts created for you with the Xbox One, Xbox 360,, Hotmail, Windows Phone and Windows 8. Now click on the Sign in with a Microsoft Account button if you have one.

Chances are you don’t, but that’s ok for reasons we’ll get more into OneDrive in just a bit. OneDrive acts as a storage area for your documents, notebooks, spreadsheets and presentations by default if you have Microsoft Office 2013. All of these different pieces are connected by OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage utility. Office Online has web versions of Outlook, Word, OneNote and Excel. Office Online works in Google’s Chrome Web Browser, Apple’s Safari Web Browser and Mozilla’s Firefox Web Browser. In this example we’re using Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, but don’t feel limited. Since it’s a web app, Office Online lives inside your browser just like websites and email clients. Here’s how to open, create and edit a PowerPoint Presentation for free using Office Online. You sign into the web app with a compatible browser and your Microsoft Account, There are no charges to use PowerPoint in Office Online.

Office Online isn’t like anything else you’ve seen from the company before. For these people Microsoft created the PowerPoint Online app for Office Online. It’s hard to convince these users to purchase a piece of $129 software that they’re rarely going to use. Every so often, they’re asked to speak and need a visual aid to go along with their topics. They sometimes need to look at PowerPoint presentations that they’re sent. No matter the price, having to buy PowerPoint has always been a necessity for anyone in school or works at an office.Ī third group of people who don’t fit into those earlier categories has cropped up in the last few years. In addition to that, buying a copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student for $139 also includes PowerPoint. For years, Microsoft has offered Desktop versions of PowerPoint in standalone packages for $129. Historically, you are either someone who frequently creates and edits presentations in Microsoft’s PowerPoint app or you aren’t.

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