Cisco Cisco WebEx Meeting Center WBS30
Meeting Center FAQs
WebEx Meeting Center Release Notes and FAQs
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Application and Document Sharing
Q. What's the difference between "document sharing" and "application sharing"?
A. With document sharing, attendees can see the document, but you can't change it. With application
sharing, you share the application that you used to create or change the document; as you change the
document, your attendees see your changes. Application sharing uses more bandwidth and therefore can
affect the overall performance of your meeting.
You can share virtually any type of document or
application, but those that stream video or audio may not
display appropriately. To share streaming content, use
WebEx "Web content sharing" which displays the content
in a Web browser on each attendee's computer. All you
have to do is select Web Content from the Share menu,
enter the URL of a Web site that contains the streaming
content, and your attendees can see it in their own
browsers. You can share many documents or
presentations at the same time; each document or
presentation appears on its own tab in the content viewer.
Document sharing requires relatively little bandwidth and
thus works well at slower connection speeds. Application
sharing requires more bandwidth.
Q. Can I save presentations or documents that contain annotations and view them offline?
A. Yes. Just save the document or presentation to your desktop and then double-click it. The document or