Individuals can now send documents for review directly from individual Office applications and easily manage the workflow process of comparing and merging multiple documents. 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. With a new view called Markup, Word users can more easily track changes, which are displayed as call-outs in the right margin of the document. These call-outs which are similar to thought bubbles in cartoon strips detail the substance of the change without obscuring the original document or affecting its layout.
Word can generate a report of all changes made to a document.
Also, if a reviewer adds a block of text, the layout of the original document does not change. Whatever was at the bottom of page one in the original document, for example, remains on that page, despite an insertion that would normally bump text to the second page. SharePoint Team Services. Word documents and other Office documents can be easily uploaded to the site to enable team members to access and work with documents via the Web. New Outlook 2002 improvements make it easier for the legal community to communicate with others by allowing them to access multiple e-mail accounts within Outlook, integrating MSN Messenger service in Outlook, and enabling people to easily schedule group meetings with others.