Collaboration with Spreadsheets

This paper presents a number of design concepts and ideas for a group spreadsheet. Unlike single user spreadsheets, these group spreadsheets should have speciic features to enhance group communication, and to maintain a shared context. Rather than presenting a single design, we discuss alternatives and general-izable issues because the speciic design can be very dependent upon the environment. The paper covers both low level architectural issues and high level collaboration issues. We will account for the fact that spreadsheets are used in collaborative environments and we will investigate how spreadsheets can be further integrated into such environments.