You can refer to flow chart created by Version History and Digital Thread. You can also rely on Document Signature to open with document to tell you exactly what you are looking at. Next question please.

Where?

It is important in collaboration to share information and to refer to others’ findings. When that happens, especially in electronic document world we work in, you may be asking later “Where did that document go?” You may also receive information and ask “Where did this come from?” These questions are not uncommon among businesses. Business is fast-paced, and we cannot remember everything without a little bit of help from a good groupware.

Help is available with proper groupware that tracks documents and lets you know exactly where documents are and where they come to you from.

When?

The toughest part of tracking documents and drafts is knowing chronology of changes. Drafts are flying back and forth, via e-mail, so quickly that without proper groupware, changes could be made out of order.

Confusion need not reign in electronic collaboration. Version History’s flowchart, tracked by Digital Thread, and available with Document Signature every time you open a draft, puts everything into proper editorial perspective.

How?

Saving toughest question for last, imagine that you have various versions of latest drafts recently emailed to you from your faithful committee. You will see them there, you will look at them, and you will probably want to weep. “How am I supposed to put this all together?” is cry heard down hall.

Since groupware is now available which tracks everything, including who’s, what’s, where’s, and when’s, you can now rely on that same teamware to know how to merge changes together. It will put information together and suggest changes that might take one person hours to come up with.

Search through groupware software suites available for Digital Thread, Version History, and Document Signature. It is refreshing to have answers during a potentially confusing and chaotic collaborative process.

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