How WSS Integrates with Office 2003

To facilitate integration of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Office 2003 and make the combination of products easy to use and learn, Office 2003 applications are aware of WSS sites that team members belong to, and have access to the content, contextual information, and actions available on those sites. For example, a worker editing a PowerPoint presentation checked out from a WSS document library is given the option to check the presentation back in to the library when he closes the file.

Some important WSS-Office 2003 integration points are as follows:

Create a workspace in Office applications. Workers can create WSS workspaces from the Office environment with a small number of steps. When a worker opens a document from a WSS Document Library in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, he has the option to create a Document Workspace based on that document and then tailor the workspace from within the Office application—for instance, adding team members to the workspace directly from Word.