Collaboration
What are your options when you need to share the workload?
amajor factor for the popularity of online office suites is that they enable multiple users to collaborate and work on the same document simultaneously. While offline office suites are catching up, this is one domain that’s ruled by online office suites, such as Google Docs.
Google Docs enables real-time, character-by-character
collaboration on Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Drawings tools. When multiple people are working on the same document as the same time, they’ll all be able to see the changes that have been made by each other. These collaboration options work in conjunction with the sharing options that makes it possible to set access levels for files, so that you can control who sees and edit your files. Again like with other features, you can use another Google service, Google Groups, to share the document with a group of people with a single click.
LibreOffice Calc enables document sharing with simultaneous write access for many users. Assuming each user adds a name on the LibreOffice User Data page under Tools>Options, it’s quite easy to track the contributions made by the different users. A similar feature has still not been implemented by the Calligra
Suite and there isn’t any mention of it being introduced in future releases. The project’s website doesn’t have a roadmap for future releases, so there’s no telling when, if ever, this feature might be introduced.
With OnlyOffice, you get a visual cue informing you of the passages your collaborators are working on, and you can talk to them to discuss ideas. But this feature isn’t available on the offline editor, and you must use the cloud feature to access it.