Sharing Documents

As the coauthors of this book can attest, collaborating on a writing project isn’t easy. When two or more people work together to produce a document, disagreements inevitably arise over the right words to use and the best way to communicate concepts. To smooth the bumps in the collaborative process, Word includes a set of workgroup features that make it easier to track changes in a document.

In this section, we discuss Word’s traditional collaboration features, all of which entail different people opening and editing a document. In a business setting, the shared document is typically stored in a shared network folder; in this book, we assume that you’re most likely to pass around drafts of a document in progress via email.