Office 2010: Saving Office Documents to Windows Live SkyDrive

 

Office 2010 provides native support to store your document to Windows SkyDrive®. Windows Live SkyDrive is a free cloud based online storage provided by Microsoft. It offers 25GB of space for users with Windows Live ID.

Users can save data from any office Suite applications like Word, Power point, excel etc. The option is available at File->Share->Save To SkyDrive as you’re seeing below

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After signing in, the SkyDrive folders will appear as above. Once we save, it’s also possible to open this from recent file list. Updating file is also possible like a local file. [Updated 5/5/2010 11:26 JST] Upload Center Application coming with Office 2010 Suite will help us to open the shared document with the associated application.

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For integrating SkyDrive with explorer, we may have to use third party applications like SkyDrive Explorer