Office web apps add real-time collaborative editing and other new features
In Redmond they have declared today as the day to do things (Get It Done Day) to demonstrate the capabilities of Office and Office 365 and incidentally present some news for their office suite. This time the improvements are focused on the web versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint and include a long-awaited one."
This novelty is the arrival of real-time editing to the three tools of the suite Using this and the collaboration that allows the service we will be able to contribute and edit documents simultaneously in our browsers.Now we will see in which part of the document each user is working, as well as the changes that they are introducing at that very moment.
Real-time editing will be available in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel web apps today. Such tools also include automatic document saving. These can remain synchronized even in the desktop applications of the office suite, so that any modification we make on our computers will be added directly to the document shared online.
In addition to the expected real-time editing, Microsoft has updated the various Office web apps to bring them a little closer to their desktop counterparts:
- Word gains the ability to find and replace words and phrases, the option to apply styles and formatting to tables, and the ability to to insert headers and footers to our documents.
- Excel now allows us to move cells and reorder our spreadsheets, we can work with more types of them and it will also show us the different formulas that we use in the status bar.
- PowerPoint incorporates to its web version the option to crop images, as well as the possibility of changing the name of our presentations while we edit them , this last option that also extends to the other two tools.
All These new features will be arriving in the next few days to all Office Web Apps users The next step is to allow the editing of our documents from Android tablets, allowing you to access and work with them from more devices. This while they continue to add features to these web versions to bring them ever closer to the classic desktop ones.
Via | Office 365 technology
