Monday, August 30, 2010

CloudBuddy Personal Office

What is CSS CloudBuddy Personal Office?
CloudBuddy Personal Office is a add -in tightly coupled with CloudBuddy Personal product supporting the following in MS Office package:
• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint
• Microsoft office Outlook

The latest version of the CloudBuddy Personal Office add-in supports 2003, 2007 & 2010 versions of MS-Office.

How CloudBuddy Personal Office helps their user?
• Anytime, anywhere access to files and mails present in S3
• Allows storing of MS office files directly from MS Office interface
• Access to MS outlook backed up emails using email interface
• Serving attachments in mails via url’s associated with Amazon S3

How to install CloudBuddy Personal Office add-in?
Follow the steps provided below to install CloudBuddy MS Office add-in successfully
Step 1: Download and install the latest version of CloudBuddy Personal
Step 2: Download CloudBuddy Personal Office add-in, and install it
Step 3: Follow below steps to install add-in





How to use CloudBuddy Personal Office add-in?
On successful installation, the CloudBuddy Personal Toolbar will be visible in Add-Ins tab of MS Office package.


CloudBuddy Personal MS Office Add-in provides the following functionality:


S.No
Functionality
Description
1
Save
Helps in saving files directly into S3
2
Save As
Helps in saving files with different name in S3
3
Open
Helps in viewing the files directly from S3
4
Insert Hyperlink
Helps in attaching files as URL in another file
5
Share
Helps in sharing files via url’s (public / private)
(The above screenshots are specific to MS Word. It is applicable to MS Excel and MS PowerPoint)

CloudBuddy Personal add-in for “MS-Outlook”

On successful installation, the CloudBuddy Personal Toolbar will be visible in Add-Ins tab of MS Outlook.


CloudBuddy Personal MS Outlook Add-in provides the following functionality:


S.No
Functionality
Description
1
Save
Helps in saving mails directly into S3, which shall be viewed using mail view option provided by CloudBuddy Personal
2
Mail Explorer
Helps in selecting and saving mails in the local MS Outlook folder
3
Insert Hyperlink
Helps in attaching files as URL in a mail, thus entertaining users to attach mails exceeding the quota limits set by the mail administrator
4
Option of sending attachment as URL
Helps the user to attach files while composing a mail. While sending the mail, a pop-up will come up and helps the user to decide, whether attachment to be sent as a url (serving attachments from Amazon S3) or attachment itself. Please refer the screen shot below.