How to Access Any Office File Using Only the Web apps
If you do not have access to the desktop office apps on your computer, follow these steps to be able to still access and edit the files originating from desktop apps.
1. Open up your preferred Internet browser on your device. All laptops have Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge installed.
2. Go to https://www.office.com.
3. Click the Sign in button in the middle of the screen.
4. Type in your Tweet/Garot e-mail address (firstname.lastname@tweetgarot.com) and click Next. If an option to Pick an account shows up, find your Tweet/Garot email address and select it. It should log you in automatically.
5. If you are prompted to choose if this is a personal or work/school account, choose work/school and click Next. If not, skip this step.
6. Enter your Tweet/Garot password and click Sign in.
7. Microsoft will ask you if you want to stay signed in. If this is your computer, check the box next to Don’t show this again and click Yes. If the computer belongs to someone else, you should click No.
8. Once you are signed in, there will be a bar on the left hand side with a list of apps. Now you will need to know what type of file you are trying to open, and open the corresponding app. For example, if you are trying to access a Word Document, you would click on the Word icon to open the web app. If you are needing to open an Excel file, you will open the Excel web app by clicking on the Excel icon.
9. For this example, I need to open a Word Document. I clicked on the Word icon, and came to the page below. Locate where it says Upload on the right hand side.
10. After pressing that, a File Explorer window should pop up. Navigate to where the document is on your computer and open it. If you downloaded it from an email or was forwarded the file, make sure you download it first and then open https://office.com and go to the proper web app. You can then go to the Downloads folder and upload it that way.
11. If an error comes up when you try to upload it, and a pop up is blocked, make sure to click on the top bar to allow all pop ups from https://office.com. There may be another pop up as well that asks if you want to open the file, press Open. If neither of these come up, skip this step.
12. Your document should now open and you can now edit your document in mostly the same way as if you had the desktop app.
13. Now, when you go to click on the Word icon from https://office.com, you will see the documents that you have uploaded in an easy access home page.
14. This will work for all Office apps, such as PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. Make sure you have the file you want to open downloaded on your laptop, then go to https://office.com, and then open the web app and upload the file.