Cure for Attachment Disorder

You send out an Office document for feedback, and get back umpteen versions back with lots of comments. Some of your recipients don't have the same Office program as you and so can't open it.

There's a way to avoid the headaches of attaching documents to email.  Just start storing your documents on SkyDrive. When you send a link, people can read your document in their web browser--just like reading a web page. And, it doesn't matter what version of Office they have or whether they have it at all.

Or you can skip email altogether and post the link on your Facebook or LinkedIn page. Here are all the details for sharing documents on SkyDrive.

If you give people permission, they can edit the document in their Office app, such as Word, or in their web browser. When they're done, all the changes will be in one tidy place on SkyDrive. Then you can access it from just about anywhere: your computer, a friend's computer, your smartphone, or an Internet kiosk.

Start now, while the year is young: save documents directly to SkyDrive in Office 2010, or upload them. Let 2012 be the year you broke free of past encumbrances.