Box for Microsoft Office empowers your users to collaborate securely and seamlessly on Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files on Box with the ability to co-author documents in real time, with all changes auto-saved back to Box.
Users can now co-author on linked worksheets in Microsoft Excel. When values in the source file changes, these values are automatically updated in the destination file.
This enhancement is now available for customers in all Microsoft’s Channels.
Configuring Box for Microsoft Office co-authoring can be completed in the Admin Console with options for individuals, groups, or organization-wide (recommended).
This release now streamlines your productivity and collaboration in the Office ecosystem by opening up use cases in Excel such as the ability to:
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Link worksheets from several departments and then integrate pertinent data into a summary worksheet. When the source worksheet changes, the summary worksheet is updated.
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Create different views of data by creating several report worksheets that only link to pertinent data.
For more information from Microsoft on how to:
Technical Requirements:
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Customers, and their users, need to have Microsoft Co-authoring enabled. Learn more here.
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Customers need to be on the latest version of Microsoft Office 365
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For currently Supported Office channel(s) for Microsoft 365 updates, see here.