As a result, you would see the changes eventually, but there could be quite some time between when the other person updated the spreadsheet and when they appeared on your screen. Depending on how active you were in the spreadsheet, the browser would ask the server for updates anywhere from every few seconds to every few minutes. In the past, your browser would communicate with the server using a timer. The Excel Web App has had co-authoring for many years, but it hasn’t been real-time. To truly understand how co-authoring works today, we need to start with how it used to work. To provide a first-class collaboration experience, we knew we needed to solve this problem. Because of this, content would appear without any indication of the change. We found that one of the biggest challenges with collaboration was that it wasn’t easy to discover where other people were working in the workbook. We did some site visits, met at conferences, and invited people to visit the Microsoft office so we could observe how you use the Excel Web App to collaborate with each other. We’ve heard feedback that customers would really like to see more collaboration features. At the top right of your screen, a list shows everyone working in the file and lets you click their name to jump to their location.įigure 1: Real-time presence and co-authoring in Excel Web App. When someone changes the content, you see the new data immediately. The ability to see what your collaborators have selected in the spreadsheet and if they’re currently editing a cell. You can check out all of the new real-time co-authoring features on SkyDrive and Office 365, but the biggest changes you’ll experience are: Here’s why we did it and how we made it happen. One of the highlights is real-time co-authoring, which can change the way people work together on spreadsheets by allowing simultaneous collaboration. Recently, we released some exciting new features in the Excel Web App. This post is brought to you by Micah Myerscough, a Program Manager on the Excel team.
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