And now, finally, real-time collaboration is available in the desktop version of Excel - at least for those who have an Office 365 subscription and have updated to Version 1707 Build 8326.2058 or later.Įxcel 2016 users who don’t have an Office 365 subscription (or users of older versions of Excel) can’t currently collaborate from within the desktop version of Excel, although they can still collaborate (or invite others to collaborate) using Excel Online in a browser. Word, PowerPoint and OneNote were given collaborative editing tools, but Excel was not.įor nearly two years, Microsoft has been promising that Excel would get the capabilities as well. Ever since Microsoft introduced live collaboration to its Office suite with the release of Office 2016 in September 2015, Excel has been left out in the cold.
