OneDrum is a collaboration tool that works with major Office apps like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. With this tool, you can share, edit, compare, and get feedback from your colleagues. In addition it uses P2P to service connections so that no One Drum network is reliant to a central server.

One Drum works by installing its desktop plugin where it connects your office software with the group. By itself, it allows for desktop apps that are talking with each other. Teams can use the chat window within the Office to get instant feedback. You can also share and e-mail documents to your friends and you are ensured of a stable connection as long as one of your friends is online.

One Drum hopes to spearhead the integration of their app to different online tools. For remote workers that are only partially convinced of the benefits of cloud computing, this tool provides a nice example of the balance of cloud and native applications.

• Collaboration platform for Microsoft office suites
• Hook up web application using the API
• Uses peer 2 peer instead of central servers
• Allows for collaborative desktop apps
• Chat inside documents for effective feedback
• Works with desktop applications that you already have

Check out OneDrum @ www.onedrum.com

Agilewords is a free online tool that simplifies and streamlines the whole document editing and review process. It lets multiple people work on a document in a single place online and automatically keeps track of all the feedback and changes in the document (currently supports only Word documents).

To get started, create your own workspace (companyname.agilewords.com), provide a username/password  and upload the document. Open the document online and invite your colleagues by clicking on the “Invite” button at the top of the document screen. You can specify their access levels - author can edit documents and add comments, reviewer can only add comments. When the document is ready, you can approve it with a single click online.

Features:

• Easily collaborate on Word documents online with multiple people.
• Work on a document from a single online workspace, accessible anywhere, anytime.
• Keep track of all the feedback (comments, messages), edits and other activity in the document and be notified of changes.
• All the feedback is added and visible to all the collaborators in real time.
• Set up a review deadline and approve the document with a single click.
• SSL encryption for documents.
• Currently supports only Word documents.
• Also read: How To Collaborate With Track Changes In Microsoft Word.

Check out Agilewords @ www.agilewords.com

However, there are times when we need our trusty MS Office for more demanding office tasks. Fortunately, we have DocsInOffice, a nifty app that lets you access google docs from desktop and work on them using your MS Office apps.

Once you have signed up, you only need to grant access to your Google Docs account. Then enter http://DocsInOffice.com/gdocs in the File Name field of your FileOpen dialog in your MS Office. Your office app will then connect to the Google Docs server where you can find and open your file from the cloud and edit on the spot.

Likewise, you can save your work by going to the address and saving the file there. All this is done without any plugin or toolbar installed. The seamless execution makes this tool very easy to work with.

DocsInOffice is a great tool for those who need quick solution to accessing Google Docs that easily beats the old download-edit-upload method.

Demo video:

Features:

• Access Google Docs from your MS Office apps.
• Feature roll-out includes Picasa, Google Contacts, and Dropbox integration.
• Very easy to use with no plugin required.
• Similar Tools: Insync, and DocSyncer.

Check out DocsInOffice @ www.docsinoffice.com (via guidingtech)

To use SaveOfficeData, just upload your corrupt doc, xls, or ppt file. Then the app auto-magically extracts the text files within them and generates a plain text format which you can save so you can recreate your file again.

It is important to note that it will not fix your corrupt file. Instead, it will save the text data so you do not have to re-type or re-input the data. The simple interface of SaveOfficeData is backed by four extraction algorithms that will take turns to extract your data.

SaveOfficeData is a nifty lifesaver for anyone who has problems with their office files and who do not want to lose precious hours of work.

Features:

• Recover text from corrupted office file.
• Free and no sign up required.
• Extracts texts from corrupt office files.
• Supports formats from multiple office suites.
• Uses multiple algorithms to extract texts.
• You can also read: How To Repair Corrupted Word Files.

Check out SaveOfficeData @ www.saveofficedata.com

You can also check out the French, Italian or Spanish version of the dictionary. For English, you have American, British and International dictionaries to find words. You can also find anagrams, solve crossword puzzles, play multi-player scrabble games and do much more using this site.

The site may not have a great user interface but it gets the job done. And while it can help you win a scrabble game, it is meant to be used as a vocabulary builder and not cheat against others in the game. Use it to learn new words and play better scrabble.

Features

• Online Scrabble dictionary and Literati, Jamble and WordOx wordfinder.
• Find words according to the points they’ll fetch you in the game.
• Dictionary available in different languages.
• Also find word anagrams, solve crossword puzzles and play scrabble on the site.

Check out a2z WordFinder@www.a2zwordfinder.com/scrabble_dictionary.html (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Every document is available either in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Adobe PDF format and includes detailed description about its design and purpose. In addition to that the websites features popular Word and Excel template files on the sidebar for easy access.

The various sample documents found under each section are as follows:

• Human Resources: includes common employee documents, personnel forms, human resources forms and spreadsheets that can be useful in organizing personnel in a professional office or business settings.
• Accounting: includes common accounting and financial documents, expense sheets, credit forms and spreadsheets that can be useful in a professional office or business settings.
• General Business: includes documents and spreadsheets that are helpful for organizing personal business functions such as bills, home budgets, personal banking, anti-fraud and personal income tax.
• Sales-Marketing: includes printable business documents designed to help manage sales and marketing tasks within a business organization.

Below, you can see a couple of sample documents that can be found on the website.

Sample Appraisal Form

Sample Travel Itinerary form

Features:

• Download printable sample free document templates, calendar and invitation cards.
• All sample documents are categorized as per type of document and usage.
• Easily access popular and featured Word and Excel files on the sidebar.
• Sample documents on the site are available either in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or in Adobe PDF file formats.
• Similar sites: JDSupra, DocShare and DocStoc.

Check out SampleWords @ www.samplewords.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

Adobe PDF – pdf, ps.
Microsoft Word Document – doc, docx.
Microsoft ExcelSpreadsheet – xls, xlxs.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation – ppt, pptx, pps.
Open Office- odt, odp, sxw, sxi.

Works easy, simply go to the site, select the document you want to open and click on the “View Document”. Your document will be uploaded and opened online. You can also share your documents with others by forwarding a URL or embedding on your website or personal page.

See ViewDocsOnline in action:

Features:

• View documents online without having to install any software.
• Supported document formats: pdf, ps, doc, docx, xls, xlxs, ppt, pptx, pps, odt, odp, sxw, sxi.
• Open documents from your computer or the web.
• Share documents in many different ways (email, social networks, forums, etc.).
• Embedding supported.
• Convert your documents into PDF format.
• Similar tools: OpenItOnline and Samurajdata.se.

Check out ViewDocsOnline @ www.viewdocsonline.com

To convert a PDF file, simply upload it from your computer, select the conversion format (.doc/.rtf), provide your email to receive the converted file and press “Convert”.

Features:

• Free online accurate PDF To Word converter.
• Preserves as much as possible the formatting and page layout of the original PDF file.
• Upload a PDF document from your computer and receive the converted file in your email.
• No sign up.
• Other similar converters: ConvertPdfToWord and PDFUndoOnline.

Check out PDFtoWord @ www.pdftoword.com

You can also contribute to the site by uploading the forms. So if you a got a free business form or a template that is not available on the site yet then share it with others by uploading it.

Features:

• Download free business forms and templates.
• Search and browse templates by categories.
• Check out most popular and newly added forms.
• Contribute by uploading your templates.
• Free and doesn’t require any registration.
• Similar websites: DocStoc and som other in earlier published article about websites offering free document templates.

Check out FreeBusinessFormsAndTemplates @www.freebusinessformsandtemplates.com

View files from your computer or from the web. You can navigate through pages one-by-one, rotate them left or right and zoom in/out with one click.

Click to view the larger or smaller sizes

Features:

• Online PDF, Word and PostScript viewer.
• No need for additional software or plugins.
• Preview PDF and PostScript files as browsable images.
• Preview Word documents as webpages.
• Upload files from your computer or fetch from another URL.
• Free and lightweight.
• Similar websites: OpenItOnline.

Check out Samurajdata @ http://view.samurajdata.se