Thirteen years ago I was posting about the newcomer on the block (GoogleDocs) and online collaboration, looking at plugins (!!) for Word to enable better functionality for Word. But I suspect the emailing of Word documents, filling up Outlook mailboxes with Mb’s worth of attachments and picking through track changes and comments is still the way of the law firm world.

Well for those who are lucky enough to have moved to the Microsoft365 platform and have access to Word online there is a new way of sharing documents, review mode sharing.

This article sums up the details but essentially people can make suggestions (comments or track changes) or comment on other people’s suggestions without modifying the original document.

It sort of reminds me of Workshare 3 (those Legal IT historians will maybe remember this, the first expansion of Deltaview) and it’s review aspirations, it was the one item most switched off as it proved a business change too far at the time!