Word Online • 6/13/2018 • 13 minutes to read • Contributors • In this article Word Online (formerly Word Web App) extends your Microsoft Word experience to the web browser, where you can work with documents directly on the website where the document is stored. Alignment guides and live layout Rulers and gridlines are not available in Word Online. Learn more about.

Oct 6, 2015 - 2011 Microsoft Word Remove Editor Comments (Mac). If Track Changes is illuminated in your document, you must disable this feature before.

Apply styles The paragraph and character styles that are saved in a document are available to be applied to text in Word Online. Learn more about.

Office Add-ins You can get an add-in for Word from the Office Store. Office add-ins only work in the Word desktop app and are not available in Word Online. Learn how to. Autosave Word Online automatically saves your document when you make changes. Autotext You can insert blocks of preformatted text using AutoText from your AutoText gallery. This is useful, for example, when you need to repeatedly enter the same large block of text and the text contains a lot of formatting.

You create AutoText entries by adding selected text to the AutoText gallery. To learn more, see. Browse and start from professionally designed templates Not available in Word Online. Advanced design features, such as starting documents from a large selection of professionally designed templates hosted on Office.com, are only available in the Word desktop app. However, Office 365 customers can configure a document library to launch a custom template when a user creates a new document. To learn more, see.

Bullets and numbering With Word Online, you can apply a choice of three bullet styles or five numbering styles. Click the Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons to change the list level for existing bulleted and numbered lists in the document, as well as those created in the Word desktop app. Learn more about. Captions Not available in Word Online. If you have the Word desktop app installed on your computer, then you can use Word to add captions to a document. Learn more about. Citations and bibliography Not available in Word Online. Make a drive bootable.

You can view existing citations in Word Online, but you can't add citations. If you have the Word desktop app installed on your computer, then you can use Word to add a bibliography and citations to your document. Learn more about. Clipboard Because of the limitations of web browser technology, copying and pasting text in Office Online differs from copying and pasting text in the Office desktop applications.

Learn more about. Collaboration- advanced Not available in Word Online. Advanced collaboration features, such as turning on Track Changes and merge, compare, and combine documents, are only available in the Word desktop app. As expected, tracked changes appear in Word Online while in View mode. Content controls Content controls are individual controls that you can add and customize for use in templates, forms, and documents. To learn about content controls, see. Cover pages Microsoft Word offers a gallery of convenient predesigned cover pages.

You can simply choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own. Creation of advanced document elements Not available in Word Online. Advanced document elements, such as AutoText, cover pages, bibliography, table of contents, index, equations, and watermarks, are only available in the Word desktop app.