Workshare has released Workshare Professional 7 that works within Microsoft Office, allowing users to easily and comprehensively review and compare changes to contracts, documentation, financial filings and other business documents when sharing between email, web portals and document repositories as well as to identify and manage hidden information (metadata).

The latest release simplifies the installation process, providing a more efficient configuration manager and much easier parameters management. Version 7 provides automatic detection and comparison of changes when attachments are sent, modified and returned through email, alerting users directly in Outlook.

By identifying changed documents and launching a comparison as modified documents arrive, it reduces the number of mouse clicks a user must initiate to compare documents. Additionally, the new version includes a Category View for document comparison.

Version 7 has a significant redesign to the metadata removal interface, which is now much faster to use and easier to understand, so users can more simply apply appropriate actions when emails are sent. Users can also now choose to process metadata removal with Workshare Protect Server instead of processing with the desktop client.

"The new upgrade to Workshare Professional provides our users with more efficient and effective document exchange and management," said Scott Smull, CEO, Workshare. "Working collaboratively is only getting more common where teams within an organization as well as groups from several organisations work together. Workshare Professional 7 makes document collaboration and comparison much easier and faster."

Workshare 7 is priced from $A50p.a. with volume licensing available for enterprise clients.