Share Your Office Live Workspace With Just About Anyone

A problem with sharing your Office Live Workspace with others was that those folks were required to have signed up for Office Live Workspace with a Windows Live ID. Although Microsoft would like everyone on the planet to sign up for OLW, not everyone does. There was no way to share your workspace ... [More]

Office Live Workspace Tutorial: Part 1 - Getting Started

Office Live Workspace is an online repository for storing, sharing, and collaborating on documents. It can hold three kinds of documents: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) documents Task, event or contact lists, or even custom lists with custom columns, that you can build ri... [More]

Office Live Workspace Tutorial: Part 2 - Creating A Note

To create a new note, pull down the New menu on the blue navigation bar across the top and click Note. You’ll see a Wordpad-like editor as shown in Figure 1.   Figure 1: Creating Notes with Office Live Workspace A note has a title, which is automatically filled in for yo... [More]

Office Live Workspace Tutorial: Part 3 - Editing a Note and Saving Versions

Let’s edit the note you just created. To do so, click on the name of the note on the dashboard. The note opens up. You can’t edit it yet; it’s in Read Only mode. Before you edit it, let’s save this version of the note. Click Versions on the Ribbon and choose Save to Version... [More]

Office Live Workspace Tutorial: Part 4 - Sharing Your Note

To share a note with someone else, click the link for the note from the dashboard. The note comes up in read-only mode. Pull down the Share menu and click Share Document. A new pane that looks like a mini e-mail message appears at the top of the note as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Sharing y... [More]

Office Live Workspace Tutorial: Part 5 - Adding Comments to Notes

You, or people you’re sharing your document with, can collaborate on the document by adding comments. To do so, click the Comment icon in the toolbar. A comment panel appears on the right-hand side of the document, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Collaborating with comments Type t... [More]

Office Live Workspace Speaks French, German, Japanese, & Spanish

Microsoft announced the availability of Office Live Workspace in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Since I don't know any of them, I leave it to you to try the service out and post comments.

Microsoft Updates Office Live Workspace With Office Live Update 1.1

Microsoft released Office Live Update 1.1 yesterday. It incudes: Performance updates for accessing OLW faster from Microsoft Office The latest version of the Office Live Add-in with new menu options A multiple-document upload tool Actually, th... [More]

Multiple Document Uploader Works Only With IE

If you use Firefox to work with Office Live Workspace, you're missing out on a great feature that's available in IE only - multiple document uploader. When you bring up Office Live Workspace with IE, you'll find an additional menu item under the Add Document menu on a workspace&#... [More]

Office Live Workspace SP1

Although it's not officially called SP1, Microsoft updated Office Live Workspace today with some neat features: A new activity pane lists all the activity relating to the document making it easier to see who did what to the document and when. You can also get an e-mail notification of t... [More]

What's Office Live Workspace?

  • Posted by acxede on December 11, 2007
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I've been testing Office Live Workspace Beta for the last couple of days. My verdict? Office Live Workspace is terrific! Now that may echo what you've read on other posts on the Web in the last couple of days. But then, I'll venture to say that many people don't really get wh... [More]