To share a document with someone else, you first need to save it to the cloud. This means that you need to set up a OneDrive account and then log into your Microsoft account from within Word. ..
Share Word Doc
To share a document with someone else, click on the Share button and select the person you want to share the document with. You can then choose to send the document as an email, or save it to their OneDrive account. ..
If you want to save the document to your computer, click the Save to Computer button. ..
This will open the Save As dialog, which should already be set to OneDrive. Give your file a name and save it.
If you’ve already uploaded your document to the cloud, and you want people to be able to join in on its creation, you can now invite them by going to the Share dialog and clicking on the “Invite people” button. Type in an email address, choose whether they can edit it or just view it, and then include an optional message if desired.
The sender has sent you a document that is stored on their OneDrive account.
When the user clicks on the link, it will take them to a browser version of Word called Word Online, where they can edit the document.
You can edit a document on your desktop without needing to install Word or have a OneDrive account.
The document automatically saves, so you don’t have to worry about trying to save the document yourself. Other people are editing the document and asking if you want to automatically share changes as they happen. I recommend clicking Yes here.
If you want to see the changes that other users have made, you can click on the File tab and then click on the Info tab. You’ll see a new message on the Info tab that says Document Updates Available. ..
New changes made by others will be shown with a green overlay if you save your document.
If someone deletes something from a document, it doesn’t show up in green.
The document has been edited by multiple people, and it’s hard to tell what’s going on. To keep track of what changes are being made, you should enable Track Changes on the document before you share it.
Since Track Changes was enabled on the Review tab, I can see changes in the text as well as the bars in the left-hand column. Clicking on the red line shows me deleted content in strike-through.
Word is a great tool for collaboration in real-time with multiple authors or editors. The syncing aspect works well. One feature I noticed is that when someone else is editing a certain paragraph, it prevents others from editing that section until the first person is finished. This ensures that people aren’t overwriting the same sections at the same time. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!
