Collaborative Editing

[SlowerThanASluggishSloth]

Can anyone recommend anything which will allow two of us (100 miles apart) to work on a document which includes formatting and images please?

I've used Writeboard before, but that is simply for text-based files so no good in this instance.

We'd prefer not to have to pay for anything!

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

 

[MossCommuter]

Google Docs

 

[Red Light]

Google Docs

+1

 

[SlowerThanASluggishSloth]

Thank you both for your suggestion. Time to try out Google Docs!

 

[MossCommuter]

Does SkyDrive do real time online collaboration?

 

[MossCommuter]

25Gb free is handy though; I have a number of SkyDrive accounts

 

[HovR]

Dropbox shared folder? Basically with a Dropbox shared folder you have a folder on both of your computers that share exactly the same content. If you add something to that folder on your side, your sharing partner will also get the file you have added. If you edit a document in that folder, your sharing partner also sees that change.

The only downside if that you can't both work on the same document at the same time and instantaneously see the document change - The other party would have to save the document and you would have to (re)load it before you can see the changes.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Google Docs (again), I use it for collaboration a LOT, you can see what your collaborator is doing in real-time. Very handy.

 

[Fnaar]

Google Drive (aka Docs) with InstallFreeNexus... have used it only yesterday. Online Word editing for the purposes of, and it was ace. Only yesterday's experience to go by, mind.