About installing, licensing, and distributing Office Web Components

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About installing, licensing, and distributing Office Web Components

When you design a Web page using Microsoft Office Web Components, any user with a Microsoft Office XP license can interact with the components in the browser to the level of interactivity you provide. That is, a user with an appropriate license can make changes to data in a spreadsheet, change formatting, drag fields in a chart or PivotTable List, and so on, as long as you didn't protect these options at design time. Users with an Office XP license can also create, design, and modify components in a design environment such as Microsoft FrontPage or Microsoft Access.

Users who do not have Office XP licenses can view the components and the data in them, and can print the view of the components, but they cannot interact with the components or manipulate them in a design environment. This means that if you distribute a Web page that uses components, users who have Office XP licenses will have access to all functionality provided, but users without a license can only view the data and information you've provided.

Installing the Office Web Components

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