Document Workspaces
Use Document Workspaces to simplify the process of co-writing, editing, and reviewing documents with others in real time through Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, or Microsoft Office Visio 2003. A Document Workspace site is a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site that is centered around one or more documents. Colleagues can easily work together on the document
Typically, you create a Document Workspace when you use e-mail to send a document as a shared attachment. As the sender of the shared attachment, you become the administrator of the Document Workspace, and all the recipients become members of the Document Workspace, where they are granted permission to contribute to the site.
When you use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Visio to open a local copy of the document on which the Document Workspace is based, the Microsoft Office program periodically gets updates from the Document Workspace and makes them available to you