- How do I start using LIVE documents?
Its easy, login to “manage my services”.
Under Live documents subscription you can Add user, remove user, view user list, change password and view reports.
Start adding yourself as a user now.
- Where can I use Live Documents?
Use Live Documents everywhere you use Microsoft Office today!
Without the pain points of having to email documents attachments back and forth or having to worry about which version is the latest one or who changed what.
What's more, unlike Microsoft Office, Live Documents is cross-platform - works on all operating systems and is extremely lightweight. All this without having to sacrifice features and functionality that you are used to in your existing productivity tools.
- What can I do with Live Documents?
With Live Documents, you can:
- Work on your documents online
- View and edit your documents from anywhere at any time in your browser in a rich user interface that provides the functionality and responsiveness that you expect in your familiar desktop applications.
- Share your documents securely with others and edit documents simultaneously
- Does Microsoft have anything to do with Live Documents?
No, Microsoft is not involved in Live Documents in any way.
- Does Live Documents compete with Microsoft Office?
Live Documents extends and embraces Microsoft Office - it extends the power of these productivity applications to the browser and if you choose to, embeds collaborative capabilities into your existing desktop applications. But unlike Microsoft Office, Live Documents gives you the choice and flexibility of working with and sharing your documents without having to worry about operating systems, document formats or version compatibility.
- Does Microsoft have anything to do with Live Documents?
No, Microsoft is not involved in Live Documents in any way.
- Does Live Documents compete with Google docs?
Google has repeatedly said that it does not compete with Microsoft Office - since we do compete with Microsoft in some respects, we guess we do not compete with Google docs directly!
- No seriously, tell me how Live Documents is better than Google docs...
Jokes apart, we offer all the capabilities that Google docs offers in terms of being able to view and edit your documents in your browser but unlike Google. Live documents is more feature-rich than Google and other online Office suites.
And yes, we don't snoop on your document content and serve any annoying advertisements contextually.
- Who is it for?
Anyone who uses Microsoft Office, Open Office or a browser-based Office suite such as Google docs can benefit from this service. Live Documents gives you the choice and flexibility of working on the desktop or on the browser without having to do anything manually to manage your documents across both platforms.
- Is my information protected?
Live Documents protects your documents on the browser as well as on the desktop. You control who can view, and edit your documents. You manage permissions and decide whether someone has access to a document and can modify or remove permissions at any point of time. You also have the option of hosting Live Documents within your own premises.
- What Is Live Presentations?
Live Presentations is a powerful presentation software that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle that can be used on the browser.
- I already have Microsoft PowerPoint. Why should I use Live Presentations?
With Live Presentations, you can:
- Access your presentations on the web using any common browser
- View and edit your presentations from anywhere at any time in your browser in a rich user interface that provides the functionality and responsiveness that you expect in your familiar desktop applications.
- Easily share your presentations with your colleagues and contacts
- Make presentations from anywhere without having to worry about PowerPoint version compatibility
- Track changes made to your presentation at a slide level - no need to upload or download entire presentations each time anyone makes a change.
- Is Live Presentations Only Available Online?
Yes, right now we offer Live Documents for online only.
Soon we will have a desktop client that lets you create, edit and present without an Internet connection. All changes made to your presentations when you are offline are automatically synchronized the next time you go online.
- How do I share a presentation with others?
Click on the “Share” button and add the email address of the person with whom you would like to share the presentation. You also have the option to make documents “public” in which case any body can view the document – all you have to do is share the link that appears in the browser toolbar.
- Do I have to download anything?
If all you are looking for accessing your documents in the browser, no downloads are required. There's nothing to install, so just sign up and go. All you need is an Internet connection and a web browser that supports Flash.
- Can multiple people work on a presentation at the same time?
Absolutely, any number of people can work on a presentation simultaneously – you can see updates coming into your document in real-time without having to do anything manually like save or refresh.
- When multiple people are editing a document together, how are conflicts avoided?
Live Presentations tracks and updates content at a slide level, so the possibility of conflicts is quite small. In the event that multiple people make changes to the same slide at the same time, it operates on a “last-save wins” mechanism and the person whose changes were made last appears in the presentation. However, you can revert such changes at any point of time by clicking on the “Revisions” button on the slide thumbnail where you can see all the slide versions – from this screen, you can revert to any previous version that you wish.
- What kinds of document formats does Live Presentations support?
| IMAGES |
JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
PNG (.png)
GIF (.gif)
TIFF (.tiff)
ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT
EPS (.eps) |
| FLASH |
SWF (.swf) |
| VIDEO |
Flash Video (.flv)
WINDOW META FILE
WMF (.wmf) |
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT |
PowerPoint 97-2003 presentation (.ppt)
PowerPoint 97-2003 show (.pps)
PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) |
| OPEN OFFICE IMPRESS |
Open Office Impress presentation (.odp) |
OPEN DOCUMENT PRESENTATION TEMPLATE
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OTP (.otp) |
PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT
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PDF (.pdf) |
PIPELINE CONFIGURATION TEMPLATE
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PCT (.pct) |
Please note that the export feature is available only to the author or a document - this check is in place to ensure that people with whom you share your document respect the permissions and privacy policy that you have specified for a document.
- Can I upload my existing presentations to Live Presentations? What file formats do you support?
Yes, you can upload your existing presentations into Live Presentations. Live Presentations supports a variety of file formats - ppt, pps, odp & sxi. Support for pptx is also available. Please note that some unsupported shapes and objects such as charts and tables are skipped. Animations are not preserved either because we feel that our animations are far richer than what PowerPoint offers currently!
- Are there any upload limits?
Each presentation you upload (import) into Live Presentations should be less than 10 MB. This limit will be raised further in future. There is no limit in the number of presentations that you can import but the total storage for your documents is 50 MB for the free plan.
- Can I create a presentation from scratch in Live Presentations?
Yes, you can create a new presentation from scratch. Click on the "Create New Document" button on the dashboard or from the documents list at any point of time and get started.
- Can an existing presentation be edited? Can slides be inserted, duplicated or deleted in an existing presentation?
Live Presentations offers the full range of editing capabilities. All of your presentations can be edited. New slides can be inserted, existing slides can be edited and duplicated. Text boxes can be moved around, shapes and symbols can be resized and rotated.
- Can everyone access my Live Presentations documents?
The presentations you create (or import into) Live Presentations are all by default private. They will be accessible only to you and are protected by your Live Presentations ID / password authentication. You can optionally share your presentation to other users by entering their e-mail addresses in the "Share" tab in the document listing at any point of time. You can specify what each person can do with the presentation.
- Can I share a presentation with my friends/colleagues? Can they edit my presentation?
Yes, you can share your presentation with others. And they can edit presentation as well (provide you have given them edit permission).
- Can I add notes to my presentation?
Yes, you can. Each slide can have notes added to it.
- What formatting text options does Live Presentations offer?
Live Presentations offers many text formatting options. You can bold, italize, change font type, increase/decrease letter size, indent etc. Text boxes can be moved around by easy drag-and-drop too. In addition, you can apply a range of sophisticated effects such as shadow, glow, blur, bevel and reflection to your text.
- Can I embed images from my desktop into a presentation?
Yes, you can. Click on the "Insert Image" icon from the Live Presentation toolbar to select an image from your desktop. Once the image is uploaded, you can move and resize it as per your requirements.In the desktop version, you can also drag and drop any image into a presentations.
- Can I include bulleted/numbered lists?
Nope - we feel that banning bullets is a good way to improve the quality of presentations...let us know if you think is a bad idea!
- Can shapes/flowcharts be inserted/created?
Yes. Live Presentations has a wide variety of shapes & symbols from which you can choose from.
- Does Live Presentations offer readymade themes from which I can choose from?
The themes feature is currently in development and will be available shortly.
- Can I have transitional effects between slides?
Live Presentations offers a number of transitional effects between slides.
- Does Live Presentations support animation, video and sound?
Live Presentations supports animations, video and sound file embedding.
- Can I embed URLs, YouTube clips in my Live Presentations presentation?
This feature is currently in development and will be available shortly.
- Can Live Presentations support gradient and transparency effects?
Yes.
- Can I embed charts and tables in my Live Presentations?
Yes.
- Is Live Presentations available in other languages?
Currently, it's available in English only. We plan to add more languages in the future.
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