Office Apps Online Viewer can display web hosted Office documents as a web page

Much like the almost killed Google Docs Viewer which can let you open popular file formats including Word, Excel & Powerpoint documents hosted on the web within the browser, the Office Apps Viewer can display Office document formats.

With Google Docs Viewer, you had to append the URL of a web hosted document as a value to the url field -
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

With the Office Apps Online Viewer, you similarly have to provide the URL of a web hosted document  as a value to the src field. I randomly picked some publicly available online Office documents to show examples. Click on the links below to see the Office Apps Online Viewer in action -

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/docs/usph101.pptx

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=kdla.ky.gov/librarians/Documents/Sick%20Leave%20Policy.doc

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/incpovhlth/2013/stateonline_13.xls

It has some limitations and not all documents may open. For instance, when I tried to open a PPT file that more than 10MB, it complained - "The file specified is larger than what the Office Online Viewers are configured to support."

HOW TO copy a doc / spreadsheet from Google Docs to OneDrive without saving to local computer

1. Open the document or spreadsheet to be copied to OneDrive, within Google Docs / Drive

2. From the menu, choose File > Email as Attachment...

3. In the dialog box that opens, choose to attach the file as .docx or .xlsx as appropriate and email it to your Microsoft account

4. When the email is opened within Outlook.com, click on the button View in OneDrive to view & save that file in OneDrive to view it in Word Online or Excel Online