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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You can decide to act on collaborated changes immediately or delay the processing of the changes until you explicitly want to process them. Delaying is useful if you are involved in a lengthy activity and do not want to be interrupted. Process the collaboration changes after you have completed all of the changes you want to make to your own part(s).</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Use <b class="uiTerm">Preferences&rarr;Collaborate</b> to specify the processing mode.
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      <div class="title_division">Manual</div>
      <p class="para_division">You will have to initiate the update of your model from stored, but not processed, collaborated changes by setting the collaboration preference to <b class="uiTerm">Manual</b>. While this mode requires explicit action on your part, it may be more appropriate than having the changes applied automatically.
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      <p class="para_division">When your collaboration preference is set to <b class="uiTerm">Manual</b>, the <b class="uiTerm">Note from Collaborate</b> message dialog box displays when you get an update from another participant.
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      <p class="para_division">As the dialog box indicates, you must use <b class="uiTerm">Tools&rarr;Collaborate&rarr;Process Received Changes</b> or the <img align="bottom" src="graphics/receive_change.gif" border="0"> button to process the changes. <b class="uiTerm">OK</b> will dismiss this notification but will not cause the changes to happen.
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      <p class="para_division">You will only receive this message once until you process the saved changes. All other changes are saved and applied in the order received when you process the changes.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">If you have <b class="uiTerm">Collaborate&rarr;Preferences</b> set to <b class="uiTerm">Automatic</b>, any currently executing function will complete before the changes are applied. However, the process of applying collaborated changes will <b class="uiTerm">Cancel</b> any active dialog box, even if you made selections on that dialog box. An active dialog box is not an executing function.
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      <p class="para_division">You can change your preferences at any time during your session.</p>
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