Yes, you can change the document access level to allow someone without a Buzzword account to read your document. For more information, see Allowing others to access your documents.

Look in the Collaborator bar. Under each collaborator’s name, check their status to see if they are viewing or editing. If no one else is shown as editing the file, you can edit.

Either you haven't opened the document or it's changed since you last opened it.

It depends on your role. If you're a co-author, you can share it with anyone else. If you're a reviewer or reader, you can't share the document. If a document has the Reader, Reviewer, or Co-author access level, it can be shared with others even if you are not a Co-author. For more information, see Allowing others to access your documents.

Choose Buzzword > Settings & Preferences, and then select Automatically Accept Sharing Requests From Unknown Users.

The Collaborator bar shows who is sharing a document. It appears at the bottom of the browser window in both the Document Organizer and an open document. In the Document Organizer, click a document icon to see collaborators. To see whether a collaborator has viewed the document (the current version or an older version), move the pointer over a collaborator name. A document may also have anonymous readers that can view the document, but are not shown in the Collaborator bar. For more information, see Allowing others to access your documents.

The dimmed icon means that the person you invited has not yet accepted the e-mail invitation to share a document.

Your initial Buzzword sharing invitation e-mail may have been incorrectly treated as spam. Place your pointer over the icon, then click Invite again. This automatically copies the link to the document onto the clipboard. Paste the link into a new e-mail or send an instant message. The recipient can click the link to start sharing your document.

If the document is in the recipient's Document Organizer, the Invite again option is not available. However, you can copy the document link directly from the address field of your browser. Then paste the document link into an e-mail or instant message.

Choose Buzzword > Settings & Preferences, and then click Change next to Your Image.

As an author or co-author you can change the role of any other collaborator (except for the author) to prevent someone from accessing a document. Move the pointer over a collaborator icon and click the context menu button to display the menu of roles. Choose a different role or choose Remove to stop sharing the document.

If a document has the Reader, Reviewer, or Co-author access level, you can click Share > Clear Sharing List in the Collaborator bar. The Clear Sharing List option removes all collaborators from the document, sets the access level to No Access, and cancels any outstanding invitations. For more information, see Allowing others to access your documents

To stop sharing a document that someone has shared with you, click the context menu button next to your own name and choose Remove. When you stop sharing a document, the document is also removed from your Document Organizer.

Only by sharing a document with someone. When you click Share, the list of addresses that you see contains all the people you are currently sharing documents with.

On the Collaborator bar, move your pointer over the collaborator's icon until you see “Invite Again.” If you are already sharing a document with someone, you can copy the document URL and send it to them by instant message or e-mail.

You can also send a reminder e-mail message to all explicit collaborators for a document. On the Collaborator bar, click the menu next to Share in the lower-left corner of the program and select Send Email To Sharing List.