In this exercise, you’ll sign out of your Office account.

SET UP You need to be signed in to Office to complete this exercise. Start Word if it’s
not already running, create a blank document, and follow the steps.

1 In the Backstage view, click Account.

2 Below the User Information section, click Sign out.

3 In the Remove Account confirmation message box, click Yes to remove the account.

4 Exit Word and restart Windows to complete the sign out process.

CLEAN UP If you exited Word and restarted Windows, there are no additional clean
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up steps.

Connecting cloud services to your Office

account
Cloud services help us stay connected to our information and other people. However, these
services can result in information that’s scattered in several different locations, depending
on the number of cloud services you have. For example, you could have an Organizational
account, a Microsoft account, as well as business and personal accounts on social networks.
You might often need to sign in to various websites to locate a document or recall which
social network you need to access to find contact information for someone.

As noted in the section titled “Defining the term cloud service” earlier in this chapter, you
can connect these various online services to your Office account. Doing so gives you the
ability to open and save files to your cloud locations. In addition, you can search for con-
tact information across your services. You can also insert your online pictures or videos in
an Office document and even get social updates from within your Office applications like
Outlook.

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