A great benefit of incorporating your documents with Drive and having them online is the ability to share and collaborate with other Drive users. When working with word processing, spreadsheet or presentation-based software, it’s quite common to send a document over to someone else, so they can check over it. Services such as Dropbox make this process easier by having both users who are interacting with the document share the same folder where it is stored, but on different computers. The issue with this setup is that only one user can access the document at a time. With Google Drive it is completely possible to share a document with multiple users, and have all the users editing the document at the same time. This opens the door to true collaboration between users: changes can be marked; other users’ cursor position in the document and changes are seen in real-time; and through the use of a comment system, users can keep each other up to date, comment on and offer feedback about each other’s changes to the document. You will be hard pressed to find the limitations in Drive’s collaboration service, so follow along with our simple steps to start sharing your documents.
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how to Share and collaborate your document on Google Docs with other drive user
- Share a document: Go to https://docs.google.com to Create a new Google Document . In the top-left corner of the page, click the Share button. Under ‘Invite People’, add the name, email address or group you want to join the document.
- View other users: Click Share and Save. In the document window next to the Share button, click on the speech-bubble icon. Documents shared with you will be found in your Google Drive folder Shared with Me.
- Communicating with users: Once a document has been shared and a user opens the document through Drive, their Google profile image will be displayed. Click on the speech bubble to begin a group chat with them.
- Amending a document: Highlights and amendments happen in real-time. When a user interacts with the document, a cursor with their name next to it appears. This also helps with highlighting and discussing sections of a page.
- Amendments and revisions: Your document will save automatically whenever it is changed. Click on ‘All Changes Saved in Drive’ to view your revision history, displaying which user made an amendment and when and where it was.
- Adding comments: Highlight a piece of text to comment on. Next to the Share button, click Comments>Comment. Add your notes, then click Comment. It will then be pinned along the edge of the document.
- Resolving a comment: If you see a comment on a document, click on it to reply. Make necessary amendments, then click Resolve to remove the note. Responses will be emailed to the creator of the comment.
- Emailing collaborators: In your Drive folder, right-click on your shared document and click Share>Email Collaborators. Here you can email the document to collaborators with a message, just as you’d email a word doc.
- Emailing the document: To share a document with a non-Google Drive user, in Drive right-click the document, click Share>Email as attachment – you can choose what format to send it in.
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