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Track Changes - Useful, and Potentially Embarrassing

May 29th, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · Office 2007 · Word

Posted by Holly Green

Track Changes is a great feature in Microsoft Word that can be really helpful in editing and collaborating.  When you use Track Changes, any changes made to the document by you, or another person, will be marked.  Reviewers can also add comments.  All changes can later be accepted or rejected, and comments can later be deleted.
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Delete a Document Workspace on SharePoint

March 31st, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · SharePoint

Posted by Holly Green

Last week, in preparing to write the post about shared attachments, I sent several test shared attachments and later found that my SharePoint site was littered with test workspaces.  This led to the question, how do you delete a workspace?
1.  Go to your main SharePoint site (not a document workspace).
2.  Click on Site Actions (top right [...]

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Save Mailbox Space by Sending Shared Attachments

March 26th, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · Outlook · SharePoint

Posted by Holly Green

Collaborating on documents through email can be a big headache.  Sending the document back and forth to people after each edit fills mailboxes, and leaves everyone with multiple copies of the same document.
If you are struggling with this, I think you might like using Microsoft’s shared attachments feature.  It works with Outlook and Sharepoint. The Exchange Server for the email [...]

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Get Groovy

February 20th, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · Office 2007 · Useful Web Sites

Posted by Jeff Hauger

One of the lesser know programs in the Office 2007 Enterprise Suite and Ultimate Suite, Microsoft Groove is available for McCombs Faculty and Staff. Groove is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Microsoft provides a nice online demo about Groove. The [...]

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