Real-time document collaberation?

[CaptGoodvibes]

Google docs has filesize limits I cannot work within. Does anyone have recommendations for other free online collaboration tools?

EDIT: Someone teach me to spel

[salsashark]

Google docs has filesize limits I cannot work within. Does anyone have recommendations for other free online collaboration tools?

EDIT: Someone teach me to spel

Chrome and Firefox include spell checkers into the browser... I can't help with the other problem.

[birchyboy]

Google docs has filesize limits I cannot work within. Does anyone have recommendations for other free online collaboration tools?

EDIT: Someone teach me to spel

Are you talking about working on Word/Excel files with multiple people at once? What size are the files? Internet or Intranet?

[Spiderman]

Nothing fancy here, but...
I do editing for my best friend in Canada. He emails me the documents, and I edit them while we're talking on Skype. We use MSN to bounce wording ideas off each other.

[CaptGoodvibes]

Are you talking about working on Word/Excel files with multiple people at once? What size are the files? Internet or Intranet?

Browser-based internet. .docx file is currently almost 3MB(may grow to about 10MB) with a 500kB per file upload limit on converted files; converting is required for all to be able to edit real time.

[Sarge]

Not *free* (but you can get it) Office Sharepoint Workstation or Office Groove, which is included in the Professional or better editions. Probably the best software for doing this, might be worth at least looking up the torrent.

Here's a list of free/open source applications:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software

[TFOGGuys]

Nothing fancy here, but...
I do editing for my best friend in Canada. He emails me the documents, and I edit them while we're talking on Skype. We use MSN to bounce wording ideas off each other.

Bob, that might work for pr0n scripts, but what about the serious work? :lol:

[kalibra]

I learned how to spell in school.....just saying !

[CaptGoodvibes]

I learned how to spell in school.....just saying !

I was too busy with girls, guitar, and science to worry about spelling. This was before computers in school. By the time I had to spell correctly for business, I had spell-check to worry about the details. I noticed the red squiggly in the title as I was clicking submit. And that's the way it was, that day in history. :D

So we're using Zoho writer right now but it has issues. At least the filesize isn't an issue and we can work on the text together. Graphs, charts, and diagrams will have to be output as .jpeg later instead of embedded and instantly modified by changing the original file.

[rforsythe]

Screen sharing using something like WebEx? Either person can control the desktop (with the permissions set) and work in the actual application.

[Zach929rr]

Team viewer.

[CaptGoodvibes]

It, the editor, cannot be local software because we all use multiple computers throughout the day depending on where we are. Web-based is the solution. A robust editor with linked MS office files would be nice. A chart from Excel, a diagram from Visio... those kind of things.

[rforsythe]

I doubt it exists for free.