When users reconnect, any changes made offline are synchronized with the online version. If there are conflicts, users are prompted to resolve them during synchronization. Note Offline caching is available only to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later. Although many documents are created for print, other documents are published directly on CD ROM, on an intranet, or on the Web. Presentations are distributed in an increasing variety of formats, including 35mm slides, electronic presentations, or HTML documents.
Office applications allow users to publish in multiple formats.
After documents are published, users might spend a lot of time trying to locate key information or find related documents created by other groups. This challenge effectively limits the size of the audience for the publication making publication on an intranet a useful alternative because hyperlinks and searching capabilities help users find what they need. When OSE is installed on a Web server, users can go to the OSE Start Page, a Web page with several tools that assist in using OSE features. One of these tools can search the server for documents based on user-specified criteria, such as words and phrases, and Office document properties, such as title, author, and summary. Note The Web Find Fast feature in Office 97 has been replaced in Office 2000 with the OSE Search feature.