5 steps to get you collaborating more effectively in Office 365 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

1. Create and save your documents to the cloud by default. Whether you plan to work on a document with others or simply share it for review, your documents are safer when saved to the cloud.

 Now, when you go to save a new Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in the desktop app using Ctrl-S (Windows), Cmd-S (macOS), or the Save button in Office, a new dialog will default to OneDrive or SharePoint Online and allow you to quickly set the filename and location. Once saved to the cloud, you can access the file across your devices.

And when you forget to save a new document before exiting, you'll see an updated save experience directing you to the cloud. And because documents are saved to the cloud, you can work with others, like real-time co-authoring, from the get go.
Once a document is in the cloud, AutoSave takes over to regularly sync your documents to the cloud. With AutoSave, you don’t have to worry about hitting save or losing changes since edits are saved automatically.

If the AutoSave toggle is turned off, flip it to “On” and store your file in OneDrive. It saves your file so that you don’t have to.

For those using Office in the browser, your files are already being saved automatically!

2. Once in a shared cloud document, you can co-author and even assign tasks using @mentions.
Stop spending time merging changes from coworkers into one document or sifting through emails for versions of a file. Simply share the Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation with collaborators and work together.

Once a cloud file is shared, you can work in the file on your own time or with multiple collaborators simultaneously. If you’re editing together in real time, you’ll see others’ changes in real time. Co-author with others on any device that works best for you – web browser, desktop, or mobile.

3. Work together with confidence in a shared document.
If you’re collaborating on a deck with others, you can see who made new changes, quickly get up-to-speed and start working. You no longer need to scroll through the whole deck to see what’s changed or painstakingly compare slides side-by-side. We’ll tell you if someone has made changes to the slides while you were away and highlight the things that have changed.

4. For existing documents, find and work on them on the web, mobile, or desktop, wherever you prefer. 

Find documents you’ve been collaborating on or share them with others from Office.com or the new Office app for Windows 10.

Office.com and the recently released Office app for Windows 10 are great ways to get started with Office and jump quickly into your work. In the documents section, you can easily find the documents that you have used most recently, pinned for easy access, or shared with others. And, we curate a list of recommended shared documents so that you can spend less time looking for what you need and more time getting things done.


5. Don’t have an Office 365 subscription? You can give Office a try at Office.com.
Once you have an account created, you can get started working in the web browser at Office.com and even work on documents with collaborators (including those who are not using Office).

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