This Microsoft Excel update should finally get your team all working together properly
Use @mentions in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to share the work
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Sharing out the work in aMicrosoft Excelproject across your team should soon be getting a lot easier due to a new update.
Thespreadsheet softwareis rolling out a new feature to all users that it says will make collaborating smoother than ever through the use of “@mentions”.
In the entry on theofficial Microsoft 365 roadmap, the company notes that @mentions can also be used to “create, assign and track tasks within your workbook.”
Microsoft Excel @mentions
Collaborating on aMicrosoftExcel spreadsheet can often be awkward, especially when teams across different time zones or locations all feed into a central or main file that changes often and requires constant attention.
A common sight for users of Microsoft’s greatoffice softwarerivalGoogle Workspace, @mentions allow users to tag their colleagues or co-workers, both within an organization and outside. These tags can be requests for edits, adding more information, or just clarification on a certain point.
The entry says that although the feature had a general availability date of October 2022, it is only “rolling out” now, meaning all users should finally be able to access it - although only desktop Excel users will get the feature for now.
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The update is the latest from Microsoft Excel as it looks to help encourage greateronline collaborationacross teams in the age ofhybrid working.
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The company also recently included the ability toadd hyperlinks into comments added to spreadsheets, rather than having to copy and paste from plaintext as had previously been the case.
Another recent update allows users to insert images directly into a cell, making them part of a worksheet for the first time, as opposed to just floating on top of the sheet.
Microsoft says this new function should make your Excel sheets more personalized and customizable, giving your work a whole new dimension.
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK’s leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, and when he’s not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
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