Chapter 3: Sharing and Collaborating

In This Chapter

arrow.png Understanding how file sharing works

arrow.png Sharing files and folders with your collaborators

arrow.png Changing how you share folders and files

arrow.png Working on files with others

arrow.png Soliciting information with a survey form

Users of the Office Web Apps can collaborate online by sharing Word documents, Excel worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and OneNote notebooks. This chapter explains how file sharing works. It shows you how to share your folders and files with others, and what happens when others share their folders and files with you. This chapter also demonstrates how to create a survey form to gather information and enter it automatically in an Excel worksheet.

Sharing Files: The Big Picture

On the idea that you should look before you leap, these pages explain the ins and out of sharing files. They explain file access privileges and how SkyDrive generates links for file sharing.

File access privileges

The person who creates a folder or file is ...

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