What can you do with Adobe Buzzword?



With Adobe® Buzzword® you can create a document, share it with colleagues, and review and revise it collaboratively on the web. Buzzword runs from Adobe secure servers, and your documents are stored there, so they are always available on the web.

Buzzword has two views, the Document Organizer and the Editor. Which view you start in depends on how you arrive at Buzzword. If someone sends you an e-mail message with a link to a Buzzword document, clicking the link opens the document in the Editor. Starting Buzzword from Acrobat.com opens the Document Organizer. Either way it’s easy to switch from Organizer to Editor, or you can keep both views open at once.

    Organize documents

    The Document Organizer shows all your Buzzword documents, both your own and those others have shared with you. To open a document in the Editor, double-click its icon. To create a new, blank document, click the New Document icon in the toolbar. Use the Sort icons in the Organizer toolbar to change how documents are grouped: by author, by date modified, by size, or other options.

    Look for menu buttons throughout Buzzword for quick access to important commands and options. Click the icon next to a document in the Organizer to display a menu button, then click it to open the document context menu.

    A.
    Buzzword menu

    B.
    Sort icons

    C.
    New Document icon

    D.
    Meet icon

    E.
    Go to Acrobat.com

    F.
    Collaborator bar

    G.
    Share button

    H.
    Collaborators

    I.
    Synchronator

      Edit documents

      The Editor is designed to let you work with a minimum of clutter. The six sliding toolbars at the top of the window let you choose fonts and text styles and format paragraphs. You can also use the toolbars to add lists, images, tables, and comments to a document. Move the pointer over a toolbar icon to identify it. Click the icon to expand the toolbar, and move the pointer over any option in the toolbar to see tool tips.
      A.
      Toolbar

      B.
      Ruler tab

      C.
      Toolbar icons

      D.
      Share button

      E.
      Collaborators

      F.
      Access tile

      G.
      History icon

      H.
      Flagged word count

      I.
      Word count

      J.
      Zoom

      K.
      Synchronator

      Like the sliding toolbars, other Buzzword features are minimized when not in use and expand when you need them.

      • Use the ruler to set margins, tabs, and indents. To display the ruler, click the ruler tab located just under and to the left of the toolbar.

      • Click the History icon to view (or revert to) previous versions of the current document and compare changes between versions of the same document.

      • Click the Zoom bar to change your magnification.

      • The Synchronator shows whether you have unsaved changes, and whether you're connected to the Internet. Click it at any time to save your latest changes.

        A.
        History icon

        B.
        Zoom icon

        C.
        Synchronator icon

      Don't overlook the Buzzword menu in the menu bar at the top of the window. Choose Buzzword > Settings & Preferences to change settings such as your user name, e-mail address, and user icon.

        Collaborate on documents

        Buzzword gives you new ways to work together on documents. Rather than e-mailing multiple documents to collaborators, Buzzword maintains one master copy where a team of people can collaborate. These features make collaboration easy and direct:

        • Shared documents, where everyone works on one copy by making comments and editing

        • Assigned user roles, including author, co-author, reviewer, and reader, that allow different contributors to perform different tasks in a document

        • The ability to add comments that include text, tables, and images

        • A history of document versions

        • A Collaborator bar showing who is invited to collaborate on a document and when each person last viewed the document

        • The ability to set an access level for a document so anyone with the URL can view the document

        • Sharing the sharing list, so all e-mail addresses associated with a document can be copied to another document

        You can share a Buzzword document with as many other people as you want. You and other Buzzword users can have the document open at the same time—you can see their changes, and they can see your changes. You can also share a document for reading only, or for commenting only; others can place comments alongside the document but can't change it.

        The Collaborator bar appears at the bottom of the Buzzword window in both the Document Organizer and the Editor. It shows who is sharing a document and what role they have. It also shows who has the document open. The person currently changing the document is shown as “editing.”

        The collaborator bar shows who can see the document and their role.

        The bar can also show you who has read a shared document and when. Look for the icon next to a name:

        • A solid white outline indicates that the person has read the current document.

        • A dotted white outline indicates that the person has read an older version.

        • Moving your mouse over an icon shows the date and time.

        • An envelope indicates that an invitation has been sent but that your new collaborator has not yet accepted the invitation.

        • A white slash (/) indicates that your collaborator has not yet opened the document.

        • A green or red box indicates that a person has the document open or is editing it.

        Note: Buzzword includes its own fonts. When you share a document, others see the same layout on their screen as you see on yours.