New Office Live Workspace Template For Travel

Always worried if you packed everything for your trip? Are the ones left behind fully informed? Office Live Workspace has a new template to help you with all this.

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To create, just sign in to your account and in the left panel, click New Workspace, and then click Travel Workspace. After you’ve done that you will see the following 4 documents are in there already:

· Business Trip Itinerary – A form for all your trip details such as departure times, flight numbers etc. You will also find a handy schedule for the events and meetings you planned during your trip, including fields to add contact information for people you’re meeting with.

· Packing List –  List the items you want to bring, plus any notes to yourself, and when you’ve packed it, check it off. You can easily export the list into an Excel spreadsheet and print it out too.

· Personal Data Form – Listing for all the things you may need to know while traveling, but don’t have memorized. Phone numbers to call if your credit cards or traveler’s checks are stolen; your blood type and insurance information in case you’re hospitalized; passport number; the quoted rate for your rental car – and lots more. Print a copy to take with you, and leave one behind with a friend or family member.

· Travel Checklist – Put everything you need to do before your travel begins here. Like get vaccinations, pick up medicine, inform your relatives (leave a copy of the Personal Data Form with them), call the kennel and so on. Check them off as you complete them.

Of course you can also share this workspace with those it concerns, like family and travel partners, and add your own documents to it. Organizing your trip couldn’t be easier!

Happy Travels!

Comments

  • JohnCz

    The problem I have with Office Live Workspace, Live SkyDrive, Live Photos and Live Mesh in its current form is it can be hard to locate a document if you don’t remember where you put it. They really should index documents across these services and provide a Windows Desktop Search Connector. In other words, I should be able type in search criteria at the desktop level and have the results include any matches from these Live services. I think they are headed there but they first need to reduce the number of storage/sync services they have first.

    Question…does anyone know if its possible to use Office Live Workspace to store/share OneNote notebooks/etc? If so, how to do it?

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Scottitude/default.aspx Scottitude

    Great suggestion and it would significantly improve the Live experience. It’s actually quicker to plug in a USB drive than browse for files on Office Live & Live Drive.

    OneNote notebooks can’t currently be shared or even “stored” in OL. I can kind of understand why but MS needs to figure out an effective way to incorporate ON notebooks into Live services.