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## A Note about why I have used Authorea and not Word to Write this   I have included this section here to just introduce the concept of using a collaborative authoring environment entirely on the web that bypasses multiple word documents and such for writing collaboative texts, and also keeps documents safe from prying eyes. This document for instance is not hosted in UC's servers and although it is listed as public, we can convert it to private any time we want as this system allows for private and public documents to be hosted at the same time. Besides, if you work with this format of writing, you will see (hopefully) within a few minutes of working how easy and simple it is to weave ideas, figures, tables, and codes together. In the end, this format puts out a nicely formatted PDF document for publishing. We can also put out a word formatted document in the RTF format, but we may or may not want that as word documents are editable. For comments, we can use the commenting features here.  ### Need to set up a simple collaborative workspace but not too many Word documents  

| --- | --- | --- |   | First Cell | Second Cell | Third Cell |   If you do not like this the above  format, just put a table in excel spreadsheet and copy and paste the cells here in the (following website](http://tableizer.journalistopia.com)  and indicate that it was meant to be a table. then once again copy and paste the resulting code here.  It will work just fine. fine and may look something like as follows:     
 

  Other than that, it is really simple to work out. I am happy to demonstrate it later when we meet. This format is really useful for writing particularly long documents, and for our collaborations. It is not as intrusive as using google docs where two people can work on the same piece of text and texts get changed constantly. Instead, here you can concentrate on the section where you want to work, and merge changes later. These change merging occurs at a different level, so there's not much of a worry.