Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Understanding the Role of Online Collaboration

Many business documents are usually the result of a team effort. These can include reports requiring input from several departments or complex documents that have input from multiple authors and editors. A typical scenario is for someone to author a document in Word and then pass the draft around to interested parties for review. The pass-around may be via email or the printed page or by posting it on a network server. Reviewers generally send their comments back by

• Email

• Notes scrawled on the printed page

• Electronic revisions directly to the Word file

• The phone or voice mail

The author takes these various revisions and incorporates them into the original document. There may be a second or even a third ...