There are three main ways of collecting feedback and your company’s methods surely fit one or more of them: Sending emails and expecting feedback replies. Sending emails and getting feedback over the phone, in a new version of the document, in a separate email, note, etc. Using a special service for document collaboration. Of course, we [...]

You should always look at the bright side of things, right? Still, sometimes a backup plan can be very useful. So, in order to prepare one, let’s discuss the scenario and all the things that can go wrong with document collaboration. Nightmare Number One: Security You sent a document that was not received. Or perhaps [...]

Let’s list some more things that can go wrong when it comes to document collaboration. Just two more to go and, afterward we will also give you our solution for avoiding not only one of these “document collaboration” pessimistic situations, but really all. Nightmare Number Three: Editing The author created a read-only file as the [...]

“I have Microsoft Word. Why isn’t that enough for me to write, proofread, edit and produce my business document?” The answer to the question above is multi-level, but it comes down to the basic idea that, for efficient business document management you should reconsider using MS Word because there is no way of sharing documents [...]

In the first part of this article we described in detail an inefficient document management business process that had Microsoft Word as the central piece and promised to come back with reasons for that “inefficient” feature. Certainly, using MS Word for  document management is better than printing out copy and reviewing it, passing it on [...]