What is SkyDrive?
Store, organize, and download your files, photos, and favorites on HCISD Live servers, and access them
from any computer with an Internet connection. Share photos and files that you create, collaborate on
documents. When you sign in to the HCISD WebMail website with your username and password, you get:
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Storage. Store photos and files. The SkyDrive storage meter shows how much storage space you've
used.
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Organization. Arrange your files in top-level folders and subfolders that you create.
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Control. Choose permissions for each top-level folder that you create. Keep your photos, files, and
favorites in personal folders so you can keep them private; in shared folders so you can share them
with your Windows Live network, your extended network, and people on your contact list; or in
public folders so that they can be viewed by anyone on the Internet.
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Convenience. Keep track of your favorite websites even when you aren't using your own computer.
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Flexibility. Move, copy, delete, rename, and caption your photos and files after you upload them.
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Display. Photos saved as the JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, and TIFF file types display with
thumbnail images, and can be viewed by other users on SkyDrive or in an online slide show, if they
have the right permissions to view them.
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Sharing. Share links directly to your folders, files, and photos, or embed your photos and files in
your blog or webpage. You can also let people know you've added their picture to SkyDrive by
adding people tags.
Uploading Docs with SkyDrive?
Use Windows Live SkyDrive to upload and store Office documents and other files securely online, from
wherever you happen to be. While working in Microsoft Office 2010, you can also save files directly to
SkyDrive for anywhere access.
Step 1: Login to HCISD WebMail Live
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Sign in with your HCISD Webmail ID.
Step 2: Open SkyDrive
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Point to SkyDrive, and then click Add files.
Step 3: Find the folder to store your docs
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Click the folder where you want to upload and store files on SkyDrive. You can click New folder
to create a new folder or subfolder.
Step 4: Upload your docs
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Drag and drop documents from your computer into the folder you selected, or click select
documents from your computer, and then click the documents or folders on your computer
you want to upload.
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To select more than one document or folder, hold the Ctrl key while you click each document or
folder. When you’re done selecting files or folders, click Open.
You can upload multiple Office files at the same time to SkyDrive.
File sharing made simple
You can share individual Office Web App files with the people you choose, either by sending them a link
to the file or by setting sharing permissions on the file.
To share a file by sending a link to it
1. Locate the file you'd like to share.
2. Point to the file, click Share, and then click Send a link.
Share menu
3. Click To to choose from your contacts, or enter the email addresses of the people with whom
you'd like to share a link to your file.
It's easy to share a link to your files.
4. Click Send.
To share a file by setting permissions
1. Locate the file you'd like to share.
2. Point to the file, click Share, and then click Edit permissions.
3. Under Who can access this, move the slider to choose who you want to share the file with.
It's easy to set sharing permissions for your files.
4. Under Add specific people, enter any additional names or email addresses you want to share
with.
5. Click Save.
Working Together
The simultaneous editing capability of Excel Web App lets you work with others at the same time on a
workbook. You can see the changes they make in real time on any shared Excel file stored on Windows
Live SkyDrive.
For more than one person to work on the same Excel file, you have to share the file with someone on
SkyDrive, or they have to share it with you.
To share an Excel file with someone
1. Open Windows Live and point to Office.
2. Click Your documents, and then find the Excel file you want to share.
3. Point to the file, click More, click Share, and then do one of the following:
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Click Edit permissions to give your friends or other people permission to edit the file.
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Click Send a link to email someone a link to open the file on SkyDrive.
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Click Get a link to create a link that will open the file on SkyDrive (click Copy if you want to
copy the link to your Windows clipboard, where you can paste it into an email message or
some other place).
There are three options when you click to share a workbook or other Office doc.
Open and edit a shared Excel file
To open an Excel file someone has shared with you
1. Open WebMail, and then point to Office.
2. Under Shared with me, click View all.
3. Click the shared Excel file (.xls or .xlsx file) you want to open. Now, you and the person who
shared the file with you can both work on the workbook at the same time.
If you don't see the file you want, contact the person who has the file to make sure they've
already shared it with you, or to ask if they can try sharing it again.
Note
To see if you're working on the same Excel workbook at the same time as someone else, look in the
bottom right corner of the workbook while you have it open. If it says 1 person editing, then you're the
only person editing the workbook at the moment. It if says 2 people editing (or more), click the message
to see who else is editing the workbook with you.
Excel can display the name of everyone editing a workbook at the same time.