Friday, February 10, 2012

New Year's Resolution: Cure for Attachment Disorder

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Image of Attach File Icon with Red Circle with line through itIt's habitual. You send out a document for feedback, and get back umpteen copies of the thing, each with a different set of comments. And, what if you want to share it with someone who doesn't have the same Office program as you? How will they open that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote file?

If you find yourself clinging to the old way of attaching documents to email, don't be embarrassed.  Just start storing your documents on SkyDrive. When you send a link, people can read your document in their web browser--just like reading a web page. It doesn't matter what version of Office they have, or whether they have it at all.

You can even skip email altogether and post the link on your Facebook or LinkedIn page. Here are all the details for sharing documents on SkyDrive.

If you give people permission, they can edit the document in their Office app, such as Word, or in their web browser. When they're done, all the changes will be in one tidy place on SkyDrive. Then you can access it from just about anywhere: your computer, a friend's computer, your smartphone, or an Internet kiosk.

Start now, while the year is young: save documents directly to SkyDrive in Office 2010, or upload them. Let 2012 be the year you broke free of past encumbrances.


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