Excel will now be readily accessible in Microsoft Teams sessions. Participants in Teams meetings may now update Excel spreadsheets in real-time by using Excel Live. It’s one of three new Teams capabilities that maintain Microsoft’s emphasis on hybrid work. Additionally, Teams now have video clips that can be shared in chats and collaborative annotations that let coworkers annotate information while it is being discussed in a Teams meeting.
Microsoft Teams Live Share feature includes Excel Live, which was previously described by the firm. According to Nicole Herskowitz, vice president of Microsoft Teams, “what it does is it allows you in a Teams meeting to modify a workbook live in real-time, right on that meeting stage itself.” “People don’t even have to leave the meeting screen; they can just hop in and start modifying an Excel worksheet.”
You can even establish special permissions or utilise features like monitoring changes as you would in a conventional version of Excel without having Excel installed or running on a device. Herskowitz claims that “full Excel” is being used. Our Fluid Framework, which Excel Live is built on top of, enables this sort of experience.
This clever Excel integration will complement Teams new collaborative annotations tool, which debuted today, and should appear sometime in August. All meeting attendees can annotate any shared information in a meeting collaboratively by writing, drawing, or reacting to it. The capabilities are essentially the same as those in Microsoft’s Whiteboard programme, but you don’t need to open a different application or import any information to begin annotating.
You may draw all over the place, highlight objects, and use Post-it notes on the screen.
According to Herskowitz, it enables such whiteboard-rich experiences on any screen. Almost every location becomes more collaborative thanks to it. Because collaborative annotations are intended to be transient, they only exist during a Teams meeting. Since there are currently no exporting options, Herskowitz advises taking a screenshot or photograph of the page to save it for later use.
Video Clip is Microsoft Teams’ most recent significant update. Anyone may now capture and distribute brief video snippets in a Teams conversation thanks to this new functionality. Similar to the video snippets that Slack introduced last year, it functions simply as a video voicemail. Video clips may be up to a minute long and are perfect for asynchronous communication when you wish to leave a video message for a coworker who is in a different time zone.
