Vlad,

Thanks for your comments. I'm really curious to hear if anyone is really using these features or if these features are more marketing hype than real substance.

Malcolm

>2 first options just run the NET Meeting application and use it. I'm not sure about third option, but it is probably also related to NET Meeting or similar tool. How to use them through COM or regular running - you can probably figure this out by reading more information related to the NET Meeting or any other particular tool. I did not seen any public standard related to such kind of "collaboration". Also, seems "Collaboration" is not a proper name for these tools either. Here "collaboration" is probably used as collaboration between people organized using NET Meeting, not a collaboration between Excel and other applications ;)
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>>I recently noticed that under the MS Office 2000 versions of Access and Excel there is a Tools/Online Collaboration menu bar with the following options:
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>>Meet Now
>>Schedule Meeting
>>Web Discussions
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>>I am interested in learning:
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>>1. How well these options work in the 'real world'<g> Are they tightly integrated with each software package or do they just launch non-modal collaboration applications that could just as easily have been manually launched by a user?
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>>2. How to provide similar functionality in a VFP application (and/or would it make sense to try to tap into these collaboration features via COM?)
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>>3. How complicated is it to configure a workstation to take advantage of these collaboration features? Is there a public 'test site' that one can subscribe to to experiment with these capabilities or must one setup a 'collaboration' type server to take advantage of these features (or are there any 3rd party hosting services that support MS's collaboration features).
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>>4. I'm curious if anyone using Office XP has noticed any enhancements in these features?
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>>Thanks!
>>Malcolm