Collaborate And Share MS-Office Documents Online

MoiN | Oct 13, 2009 | View Comments

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Often when making presentations together, not all members can be present at the time the final Powerpoint file is being created. Suppose all the group members go to college together and they have decided on what the presentation should include. The details are handed over to the group leader who then proceeds to make the Powerpoint presentation at his/her home PC.

But the group might have overlooked some important decisions to be made such as the visual effects of the Powerpoint presentation.

In situations like these, when group editing of a Microsoft Office file is absolutely necessary (and the entire group cannot be present at the time of creating the Office file), the only solution that reveals itself is the group leader first emailing his version to the entire group; then one member making suggestions/edits to that version; then another member, and then another. Needless to say, such a process can be extremely time-consuming and inefficient.

A perfect alternative to that the emailing line of action is DocVerse.

DocVerse

DocVerse is a Microsoft Office plug-in which uploads your Office file every time you make edits to it or save it. Group members can all have simultaneous access to the same file and edit it; the edits are incorporated into the Office file and the URL of the uploaded file stays the same. The file creator first needs to register for a free DocVerse account so that the uploaded Office file is secure. The creator can then select the group members who will be spectators to the editing process and the ones who will be editors.

DocVerse takes hardly takes two minutes to install and is a much better way than sending countless emails back and forth. Moreover, since DocVerse is a plug-in, it works within Microsoft Office and its presence does not interfere with Office’s normal functions.

DocVerse is a handy plug-in that can help enhance the final result of group efforts. Give it a go; the plug-in is absolutely free.