Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Review and Collaboration Improvements

Nowadays, many—if not most—business documents are developed through a collaborative process, in which many individuals participate as reviewers or contributors. With each new version of Office, Microsoft improves the collaborative tools available to Word users—and to the organizations that employ them.

Word 2003's collaboration improvements fall primarily into two categories:

• Tools that give you better control over how your documents are reviewed

• Tools that simplify team-based collaboration, relying on Microsoft network or Internet-based software such as SharePoint Team Services

New Document Review Tools

If you've ever been responsible for producing a large document that requires contributions from many individuals, ...