Office 2010 Made Simple

Chapter 5

Coauthoring in Real Time and Sharing Documents

To get your documents created and edited as quickly and as smartly as possible, you will likely need to work on them with your colleagues. The Office programs give you several different ways of sharing your documents with others. This chapter shows you how to use these different ways and explains which way to use when.

In Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, you can work on a document at the same time as your colleagues, using a feature that Microsoft calls coauthoring. This can be a great way to get a document finished quickly, as long as you and your colleagues can avoid working on the same part of the document simultaneously and creating conflicting changes that you then need to resolve. ...