June 2001
Beginner
768 pages
20h 22m
English
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Participating in Web Discussions
PowerPoint's online collaboration capabilities don't stop with presentation broadcasts and online meetings. You can also access Office XP's Web-based discussion forums from PowerPoint as you can with all the other Office applications.
These forums work like an Internet newsgroup and enable you to carry on a discussion with others without all of you having to be present at the same time. Presentation broadcasts and online meetings, on the other hand, work in real-time. Web forums aren't real-time; they're there whenever you have a chance to check in to see what's new. It's handy to have the choice between the two approaches.
Starting a Web Discussion
To start a new Web discussion (or access a previously created ...