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Accessing a word doc through website

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  • 03-11-2009 11:05am
    #1
    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭


    Hi

    With very limited knowledge, I've done the website for work using a basic package, Website X5. It's fine for what I've wanted so far.

    I want to set up a word document that colleagues can access from home, edit and re-save. Is this a runner and, if so, how do I go about it? The website is saved on my laptop. I rang the company that hosts the website but the guy wasn't all that helpful.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Could you use Google Docs instead?


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    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Dammo


    No experience of Google Docs. What's the story with that?


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Not being smart, but google it! It's an online spreadsheet / word processor / presentation suite. You can share documents so they can be updated by multiple people over the internet.


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    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Dammo


    eoin wrote: »
    Not being smart, but google it! It's an online spreadsheet / word processor / presentation suite. You can share documents so they can be updated by multiple people over the internet.

    Lol. Had just hit send on last post when it dawned on me to google it. D'oh!

    Yeah had a look. Might be an answer but even though cost is minimal I can see boss's face.

    Thanks


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Is the problem that the boss wants it all done under your corporate website? MS Sharepoint allows for easy collaboration, but I doubt it's cheap and I hated working on it myself.


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    SharePoint comes in 2 editions, WSS and Office Server.

    WSS 3.0 is free whereas you need to pay for the Office Server editions


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    eoin wrote: »
    Not being smart, but google it!
    bad advice!
    If you type google into google you can break the internet!


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    The IT Crowd ... genius

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I


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    hobochris
    Registered Users Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭hobochris


    I would look into the suggestions above first ,as their is another way(much more difficult way), which involves server side programming to create upload and repository management functionality.


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    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Dammo


    hobochris wrote: »
    I would look into the suggestions above first ,as their is another way(much more difficult way), which involves server side programming to create upload and repository management functionality.

    Hobo, try to imagine Homer Simpson's reaction to hearing the phrase 'repository management functionality' and you'll have some idea of my depth of knowledge on this stuff!

    Thanks for the tip though.


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    Keewee6
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭Keewee6


    just upload it and put a hyperlink to it


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Keewee6 wrote: »
    just upload it and put a hyperlink to it

    What happens when someone downloads it and makes changes then? Or if multiple people do the same thing?


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    Keewee6
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭Keewee6


    eoin wrote: »
    What happens when someone downloads it and makes changes then? Or if multiple people do the same thing?

    convert it to a pdf file then


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    So people can't make changes at all? I think you've missed what the OP is looking for. He wants people to be able to colloborate on this document over the internet.


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    Tim M-U
    Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭Tim M-U


    eoin wrote: »
    Could you use Google Docs instead?

    I was just gonna say 'Google Docs' . Surprisingly your hosting company never heard of it.


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    #17
    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Dammo


    Yeah, guy on the phone sounded totally disinterested. TBH I'm not sure he understood what I was looking for.


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    #18
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    To be fair, it's got nothing to do with the hosting company unless they are a web design & development company that did your site for you and also provide the hosting.


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    Dammo
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Dammo


    Fair enough, I accept that but all I wanted was to be pointed in the right direction. I didn't really want him to do anything about it for me - just provide some basic info. If he'd even mentioned google docs I could have, eventually, googled that myself (conscious of the danger of breaking the internet!).


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