Co-Author Documents
Collaborate with other staff, teachers or students in real time to edit documents together.
Co-authoring is supported in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote using:
- Office 2013 for Windows (except Excel)
- Office 2011 for Mac (except Excel)
- Office Online in a browser
Co-authoring
- Create or open a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote document and start editing.
- When another author starts editing the same document a notification will appear.
- The area of the document currently being edited by other authors is highlighted with their name.
- When you save your document other users will automatically see your changes updated and highlighted.
Notes
- In Word only one user can edit a paragraph at a time.
- Files must be saved using the Office 2010 or newer file format (.docx, xlsx, .pptx)
- Up to 99 users can co-author documents. An unlimited number of users can edit OneNote notebooks.
Technical Resources