This feature allows you to collaborate in real time with your colleagues and staff and is available through Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Presentations. Simultaneous Collaboration seamlessly shows what each team member is doing on the document. It is important to note that while PowerPoint is compatible with Simultaneous Collaboration, real-time typing is not yet available in PowerPoint presentations

• Simple Sharing

Sharing documents should be easy. Microsoft Office new feature offers straightforward document sharing with a simple share button. This button is in the ribbon in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Now your team members can not only quickly share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations but it also allows you to access and change permissions. It is essential to note that co-authored files must be shared through SharePoint or OneDrive.

• Helpful Versioning

• Smart Lookup

The Smart Lookup feature provides you the ability to look up a word right from inside your Microsoft word document, saving you the time of opening up a web page or a dictionary. In the time that it would take to open a webpage, you would already be back to your writing. To use this feature, you only need to highlight the word, right-click, and select “Smart Lookup.”

• One-Click Forecasting

Data is only important if it is used. One-click Forecasting, a new feature for Excel, helps ensure that you use all the data that you are already collecting. This feature allows users to view quick predictions based on selected portions of the Excel Spreadsheet, which are made possible through Microsoft’s Exponential Smoothing algorithm. This algorithm provides explicit short-term forecasts based on the collective data within the spreadsheet.

• Skype Integration

Skype is now integrated into Word and Excel, which means that while team members are working on a shared document, they have all of Skype’s capabilities at their fingertips.  This capability provides team members the ability to effectively communicate, without having to leave their work, which saves you crucial time. Every time you have to stop working to save the spreadsheet, share the document, and plan a meeting, you are losing valuable time, and putting a dent in your workflow. Skype integration allows you to continue working without interruption.