real-time co-authoring
real-time co-authoring is not available for word on mac, I'm trying to collaborate on a word document a college and it's very messy atm I have to manually refresh the document to get and send changes.
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24 comments
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Peter E
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The real tragedy here is the disconnect between marketing and PM - because I've had many updates for Office 2016 for Mac claiming "real-time" co-authoring - yet when I try to use the feature with a colleague it is worthless. Sure, I can see when someone is in the document, but if they have to push their changes first and I have to refresh my browser - what is that? It is not real-time collaboration.
So your marketing team is saying "yeah - co-authoring for Mac Office users available in this update - and the user (me) - gets a totally different experience.
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Jeff Allen
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It has been under review since June 2017, is there any word on when this will be developed or not?
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Jeff Allen
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Please add this feature for Word on Macs and other Office programs without the need to hit refresh to see changes.
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Verners
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Please add real-time co-authoring for Office 2016 Mac. It is ridiculous to always look for changes manually.
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Ralph
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Yes, co-authoring for Word and Excel please!
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Will
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It seems ridiculous that features in Word for Windows and Word for Mac are still not kept in sync with one another. I agree with Michael Verruto - go for platform irrelevancy!
PLEASE add real-time co-authoring for Mac!
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Steve
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Definitely need this feature – we're looking at alternatives to google docs and this feature would have made microsoft word a no-brainer
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Gabriel
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This is super important.
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Michael Verruto
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WE REALLY NEED THIS!!!!!!! Most has been delivering more and more solidly oil the mac, and a LOT of senior level execs are moving to mac based laptops etc....you will OWN this space if you can get the co-authroing nailed down for us PLEASE. We are a mixed environment and this is sooooooo critical for us...the "online" apps just do NOT cut it!
GO FOR PLATFORM IRRELEVANCY
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Jeremy Enos
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Honestly, how is this not in the product already? Fail MS.
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Anonymous
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Make this happen now! Your are hindering my office's work by not have this as universal feature!
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Anonymous
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i dont have Facebook so i can't LIKE this, but both thumbs up — so glad to see the the team responded just two days ago that this feature is now under review!!!!
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Justin
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Having files sharable and editable through OneDrive, but with neither the syncing of the Mac OneDrive app nor Mac Word having much idea about coauthoring, it ends up being a frightful mess. Scrambled text, lost changes, major confusion. The situation needs to be cleaned up – either by file locking, or by warning when you might overwrite changes or have your changes overwritten, or best of all: by implementing co-authoring properly on *all* clients. What use is OneDrive for collaboration if much of Microsoft's own software ends up corrupting files whenever authors collaborate?
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Nikolas
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We need this Feature!
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Hugo Enzo Matuoka
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Absolutely yes. Having to use Word Online is terrible because of formatting issues
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Anonymous
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We would adopt Office for Business if this feature was supported for our Mac users.
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Anonymous
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yes
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Anonymous
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We NEED this! Is the BEST WEAPON agains google sheets users. I hate google sheets. I've been able to make my partners work on word instead of sheets when collaborating, but mac users keep refusing JUST BECAUSE OF THIS!
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Benni
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I don't understand why we pay so much for Office when it can't even do the things it does on a Windows. Is it time to move to another platform?
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Anonymous
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this is one of the best features the windows platform, we need this feature on the Mac ASAP