Office
Share and collaborate in Office
Invite people to view or edit, work on the same file at the same time, and understand where Office files are stored.
On this page
Office files are files in Files, so you share them the same way — and choose whether people edit together live.
Share a file#
Open the file’s side panel and look under Shared with. Sharing works as in Files — colleagues as Can view or Can edit, or an expiring public link. Only the file’s owner can change who it is shared with. See Share files.
People with view access open the file read-only: “You have read-only access to this document.”
Edit together#
Turn on Live collaboration to edit the same file at the same time. It is off until you turn it on for a file. Save any pending edits before changing the setting.
See who did what#
- Authorship shows who wrote each part. Text written before the file recorded authors shows as Unattributed.
- Track changes records edits for others to accept or reject.
- Comments pin a discussion to the text, cell or slide.