What Is New in This Release

New Collaborative Editing Features

Right-Click Context Menus

Updating Objects in Dialog Windows

Inserting Objects

Supporting Global Undo

Versions

View Options

Spelling/Grammar Check and Find/Replace

Enhanced Change Tracking

Co-Existing with Single-User Word

Enabling All Word Features in Single-User Sessions

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See also:

    CoWord User Manual

    CoWord Collaboration Features

CoWord Editing Features

Frequently Asked Questions

This new CoWord version supports much more features than the previous versions. Some important features are listed below.

You may click the right mouse button on different types of objects in a Word document, which will bring up corresponding context menus. You can select menu items to perform different functions on document objects. CoWord automatically converts these functions into collaborative versions.

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CoWord now allows you to edit properties of many objects in dialog windows. In these dialog windows, you can change multiple properties of selected object in one time. Currently CoWord supports dialog windows for Font, Paragraph, AutoShape, Picture, Bulleting and Numbering. You can open these windows from corresponding context menus.

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CoWord now allows you insert more types of objects into the document, including Break, Symbol, Number, Footnote, WordArt, Document and Hyperlink. You can insert these objects from the Insert menu.

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The foundational consistency maintenance algorithm (Operational Transformation) supports undoing any operation at any time. Based on this, CoWord supports two undo modes, 1) local undo, which chronologically only undoes operations of the local user, and 2) global undo, which chronologically undoes operations of all users. You may choose these undo modes in the CoWord option window.

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In a collaborative editing session, users may save versions of the document. A version is a snapshot of the document when the version is saved. CoWord guarantees that versions in distributed copies of the shared document are consistent. You can open a version at any time to view the history of the document. Version can be saved in the menu item File/Versions.

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While maintaining the document consistency, CoWord allows users in the same session to have different views of the document, e.g. Normal View, Read View, Web Layout and Print Layout etc. You can also display some auxiliary document views, e.g. Document Map and Thumbnails.

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You can also do spelling and grammar check (via menu item Tools/Spelling and Grammar) or perform Find and Replace (via menu item Edit/Find and Edit/Replace). Effects of these functions are immediately propagated and replayed at other users’ document copies under the control of CoWord.

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The collaborative change tracking functionality of CoWord is also enhanced. You can accept or reject all tracked changes in the document in one time.

For a more detailed list of collaborative editing features supported in CoWord, please refer to CoWord Collaborative Editing Features.

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CoWord now can co-exist with single-user Word. While using CoWord to collaboratively edit a document in the document repository, you can also use Word to open and edit documents in you local system.

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When you are the only user in all collaborative editing sessions on your machine, you can use all Word functions.

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