The free Office Online applications still have only a fraction of the capabilities in Office 2013, but an update this week adds some welcome new features—some of which are actually ahead of the client versions.

Showing a line to indicate where a page ends is something Word has done for a very long time, and now Word Online does it too. The familiar Ctrl-Enter shortcut to create a new page now also works in Word Online.

Inserting symbols, like the copyright and Euro characters, is another feature where Word Online is catching up, though it covers only 20 common symbols, not the full list available in Windows. (Microsoft has included a button to ask for missing symbols.)

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