Microsoft adds collaborative editing to Word 2016

Collaborative editing is becoming one of the most celebrated features of a productivity suite. Microsoft has been on a roll lately adding timely tweaks to all its products and one such addition is it will let users collaborate on Word files stored on OneDrive using Office 2016.  Now, co-authoring is already available for Office Online from 2013, the traditional version gets it for the first time. Users can try it now by storing the document in OneDrive and giving editing permissions. Once the diting permission is accepted by both users they will see colourful cursor showing what changes the other is making. We’ve been seeing this Google Docs for sometime now. “To try out this feature, all you need is a Word document stored on OneDrive and two or more people running the latest preview. Make sure to give both users edit permissions so they can both edit the file. If this is the first time you’ve tried real-time co-authoring, you will see a prompt in the upper right corner of Word asking you if you’d like to automatically share your changes,” Microsoft explains in a blogpost. Earlier this month, the company introduced new features to the web version of Outlook in Office 365. Formerly known as the Outlook Web App (or OWA for short), the browser-based Outlook experience will now be referred to as ‘Outlook on the web’. **Click here** to know what’s new.