The biggest advantage of using online document software is that you can allow many people to share a version of a document and work on it at the same time as other people (known as collaborative working). You can also access content:

• anywhere there is an available internet connection

• via different devices (e.g. PC, smartphone, tablet)

• on different operating devices (e.g. Windows ® and Mac).

Online documents can also have automatic backup. Backing up files means that you save a copy of the fi le at a known point in time. This means that you can always go back to that version if you lose or corrupt the present version.

Some software programs will automatically make a copy of the file you have open and are working on at set time intervals. In Microsoft Word ® you can set how often you would like the file to automatically backup (every 30 minutes, every 60 minutes, etc). Automatic backup of online documents is just an extension of this concept.

	Created by RyanG about 9 years ago

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