Evaluate the collaborative support provided by the latest version of Microsoft Office. Suggest any improvements you feel would enhance group work, such as when multiple people are editing a Word document online.
What will be an ideal response?
Many companies use workgroup software, often called groupware, because it enhances employee productivity and teamwork. In addition to basic email, workgroup software enables users to manage and share their calendars, task lists, schedules, contact lists, and documents.
Google Docs, which is shown in Figure A-6, offers free, cloud-based collaboration. Using this application, a team can work on centrally stored documents instead of emailing drafts back and forth. Teams also can use powerful multi-authoring software, such as Adobe Acrobat, to add revisions, notes, and comments to PDF documents.
Newer versions of Microsoft Office advertise their online collaborative capabilities as a key selling point. Students can work in small to medium-size teams (2-7) on a simple project, such as editing a Word document, to experience what it’s like for multiple people to contribute to a single project artifact in a time and/or place shifted environment.
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