Microsoft Office

Internet Explorer 6  integrates tightly with Microsoft Office, making online collaboration and Web publishing a virtual snap. You can generate information forums by creating intranets for your clients and setting up workflow solutions that use the Web as a virtual white board that your employees can use to collaborate, no matter where they are.

Here are some solutions you can use to turn Internet Explorer 6 and Office 2003 into collaboration gold for your employees.

Any Document, Anytime, Online.....
Do your clients and employees think of an intranet as a virtual bulletin board? It’s up to you to show them that an intranet based on Internet Explorer 6 and Office 2003  is more than just an internal Web site: It’s a collaboration tool that will save your and them time and money.

Collaboration is a key element for success in any business. Internet Explorer 6 ’s tool set includes new Web-based collaboration tools that let coworkers simultaneously comment on, or even change, any Office 2003 file that lives on the local Web server.

The first step is to get your organization up to speed on Office 2003. Office 2003 is a key element in the equation because it allows users to save any document in HTML simply by choosing the "Save as HTML" command. Any Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation can be saved in Web format with the click of a button.

Internet Explorer 6 also has an editing toolbar that recognizes which Office application was used to create an intranet page, and allows the user to immediately open that page and edit it inside Internet Explorer 6 using the original Office 2003 application.

The next step is to set up an intranet site for your employees that enables them to get the most out of this collaboration feature. Remind your employees that Office 2003 does all the coding work, so your employees won’t have to learn HTML or spend a lot of time coding pages as they maintain and expand their site.

So how can these new technologies fit into your employees’ business workflows?

Let’s say one of your employees is a designer that regularly prepares presentations or documents to use during sales pitches or business reporting. You can help that employee quicken their development time by providing the basic intranet, internet and Office 2003  tools the employees need to create and review their presentations. You can add value by showing the team leaders how to post their presentations to the intranet and set reviewing permissions using the Internet Explorer 6 Edit button. You can also show the team members how they can use Internet Explorer 6 to edit the files online.

Collaboration Online: Virtual White Boards.....
Internet Explorer 6 also includes a threaded discussion board feature that you can use to set up "virtual white boards" for your employees. The discussion board allows your employees to gather input from team members, without giving everyone full editing permission.

You can show your employees how to post the document to the intranet and grant viewing but not editing permission. Team members can then see the document, but won’t be able to make changes to it. Instead, team members can post comments about the document to the threaded discussion board. This feature provides an inexpensive and easy way for remote workers to have their say, whether they’re five miles or five countries away. The results are effective teamwork and collaboration—and an easy solution you can provide for your employees today.

It won’t be hard for your employees to picture the time and money they’ll save just by upgrading to Office 2003  and Internet Explorer 6. Those continued savings will keep your clients coming back to you for more collaboration solutions in the future. And that spells good news for your revenue streams.

Of course the next step to this collaboration paradigm is to publish to the internet to enable your customers to interact!

Collaboration, communications, and cooperation spell SUCCESS!  Internet Explorer 6 and Microsoft Office 2003 are tools that assist in this process.

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