Outlook 2016 is little changed from before, but the inbox now has one-line message body previews. So it's the rigmarole of creating per-app passwords all round if you're security minded. Users with an Exchange account should be up and running within moments, but while the necessary settings for an or IMAP account are automatically configured, two-step verification isn't natively supported not even for Microsoft's own Hotmail and services. Outlook 2016Įmail is still the main stalwart of 21st Century office communication, of course, and managing it is a task that still falls to Outlook in Office 2016. As it stands, Google Docs does a much better job of cloud collaboration and it's disappointing for Office 2016 to lag behind.

Share a sheet with another user and they see a 'This file is locked for editing byĪdmittedly, simultaneous shared editing via the cloud is perhaps most useful in Word, but there are many circumstances where other types of document would benefit from the feature.

In PowerPoint, changes made by other users aren't highlighted, they merely appear, and there's no equivalent to Word's Tracking feature to help make sense of them. Unfortunately, all of the above only applies to Word documents. Better still, Office 2016 now supports the same nested comments as Office 2013 for Windows in Word and PowerPoint, and clear in-document conversations also take much of the pain from collaborative editing. Sharing edits with edit trackingĮdit tracking really comes into its own when there's only one centrally stored document being worked on, and it's vastly preferable to emailing multiple copies back and forth and trying to combine changes from several people.

Fortunately, it's also a problem that's largely solved simply by enabling Office's Tracking feature to show who's changed what and when.Ĭloud storage makes collaborative editing much simpler, but there are still plenty of kinks to work out. This makes Office 2016's collaborative editing confusing at times, so it's really only useful for certain situations, such as creating a document from scratch when a handful of people need to combine their ideas quickly (and without endless Cc'ed emails).

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