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Working on Office 365 documents collaboratively

This function is available only in d.velop documents ultimate.

If you use Microsoft Office 365 in your organization, you can work on documents collaboratively as part of a team. A group must be created in order to collaborate.

Suppose your team needs to create project documentation by a specific time. The project documentation is a Word document located in the d.3 repository. Your team leader has assigned your group with the task of editing the document. Once the document is assigned to the group, all the members of the group can work on the document online in Microsoft Office.

However, if you would prefer for the document to be edited successively by different members of the group, you can choose Assign for editing to select yourself as the assignee. Once you have finished working on the document, you can assign the document to the group again using Assign for editing.

Warning

If your team decides that individual members of the group or a different user should take over the work on the document during collaborative editing, all the group members need to save their changes in the document first. If you assign the document to yourself beforehand using Assign for editing, the group members cannot save their work.