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Saving files in shared locations

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Saving files in shared locations

Sometimes you need to share your work with people who aren't on your network. Maybe they work for different companies, or maybe you want to share documents with the general public. Well, other times you might want to make documents available for download only to people who have the right password or maybe you just want to store documents online for yourself, kind of like a virtual USB memory stick. Well, I want to show you two solutions for this. One is a free service from Microsoft called Sky Drive. And I signed up in advance at www.skydrive.com. The other solution I'll show you is Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint is a commercial software products sold by Microsoft. You could install your own SharePoint server or you could run service on a commercial SharePoint server. I'll show you Sky Drive first. Now both Sky Drive and SharePoint make use of the web version of Excel and the web version of Excel doesn't support everything that the desktop version of Excel supports. In fact, you…

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