Colaborate in Word
Colaborate in Word
Collaborate in Word
Word helps you work together
Whether you have a school project, sales pitch, or newsletter for your club, you can share the
load in Word by working on a document with others. For practice using collaboration features,
watch for Try it text in red throughout this document.
When you save this document in OneDrive, you’ll be able to open it anywhere: on your
computer, tablet, or phone. Your changes will be saved automatically.
Try it: Select File > Save As, select a OneDrive location, and give this document a name.
Tip: When you’re signed in to Office you’re automatically signed you in to your OneDrive (learn
more).
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Try it: Select Share near the top of the window (keyboard shortcut: press Alt, then Z and S).
Send the link by typing someone’s email address or by copying and pasting the link. You can
choose whether or not to allow editing.
Tip: Can’t think of someone to share with? Try sending a link to yourself, just to see how
everything works.
People who would rather work in their Word app (Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android) can
select Open in Word, near the top of the Word Online window, and continue editing in their
Word app.
Try it: When someone is working in the document with you, you’ll all see each other’s edits. We
call this coauthoring, or real-time collaboration.
Tip: If you sent the document link to yourself, you can simulate coauthoring by editing the
document here in Word and also in Word Online.
Everyone who is using Word Online or Word as part of an Office 365 subscription will see
changes as they happen, and changes are saved automatically with AutoSave. If the people
you’re sharing with are editing in an older version of Word, or if they’re not an Office 365
subscriber, they’ll have to save the document periodically to sync their changes with yours.
Tip: If you’re not seeing changes automatically, make sure AutoSave is switched on.
Try it: On the Review tab, make sure Simple Markup or All Markup is selected so you can see
the comment on this page. Then click in the comment and reply to it.
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Try it: Make a new comment and @mention yourself (Remember, this only works if the
document is in OneDrive for Business, and if you’re signed in to Outlook on your computer).
With changes marked in the document, you can selectively accept and reject each change,
removing the markup and making the changes permanent.
Try it: To review the changes in your document, gGo to the Review tab, and then clickuse the
arrow on the Accept button or the arrow on the Reject Previous and Next buttons to accept
and reject changesgo from one change to the next. Undo a change with the Reject button, or
make a change permanent with the Accept button.
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Learn more
To learn more about how Office 365 brings together the best tools for you and your team to
work together, visit the Modern Workplace Training page.
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