They collect common sets of features into an onscreen view, allowing users to more easily locate features and recently used files or select and test different types of formatting. Office XP provides a single environment for our employees to quickly locate data, analyze it and make smart, fast decisions that save our company time and money. SharePoint Team Services Expand Potential for Collaboration With so much information available, Microsoft recognized that Office users also needed better ways to work together to manage and make sense of it all. Two features added in Office XP, Microsoft SharePoint Team Services and five-way revision controls, were designed to allow users to collaboratively revise and maintain documents and other information more easily than ever before. SharePoint Team Services allows users to create Web sites on which each member of a group can contribute to contact and task lists, event calendars, libraries of stored documents and surveys.
Teams can also hold newsgroup discussions.
Individual team members are notified of changes to the site. SharePoint Team Services install quickly and allow each team member to share information collaboratively and work on common tasks. Microsoft also designed Office XP to make it easier for several people to revise a document. The five-way revision controls automatically combine the revisions of as many as five different users into a single master copy. In the past, users had to manually compile the different sets of revisions.