Application error reporting. The next version of Office will enable teams to work together more effectively by dramatically improving the way people collaborate on documents and by providing an exciting new Web-based application for managing team projects, information and activities. Editing, accepting and rejecting changes can be easily managed through a new user interface. Changes made by multiple reviewers can be merged easily into one complete document. Using a Web browser, team members can create contact and task lists, event calendars, announcements, libraries for storing documents, and surveys.
Teams can also have newsgroup discussions and be notified when content on the site changes.
Team workspaces are available for Exchange 2000 or for Windows 2000 Server, and can be hosted by Internet service providers or within a business. The next version of Office will provide organizations with a rich platform for creating Web-based business solutions that improve the accessing and reporting of critical business data, enable tight integration between Office and other applications, and deliver tools to build collaboration and workflow solutions that help teams work together more effectively. Excel and Access now support XML as a file format and can easily import and export XML data. This enables organizations to build solutions that integrate Excel or Access as the front end to XML-based data structures to improve corporate reporting and analysis. Extensible Smart Tag architecture.