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Open, edit, or co-edit an Office document

Open, edit, or co-edit an Office document

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Open, edit, or co-edit an Office document

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- [Gini] Documents created with the Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, or documents that are stored using the OpenDocument formats for document, spreadsheets, and presentations can easily be open in a browser directly from SharePoint. This is a Word document all about groups, and I'm going to simply click it to open it. I'm not in a particularly fast network, but here it comes. Microsoft Word online, and this document is right here. I can start reviewing it even before the ribbon loads. Often, when I open a document, all I want to do is view it anyway. And that's what the priority is here, get the document right to me so I can take a look at it. Now, I can do some editing. If I wanted to edit the text, I could. I'm going to do a deletion here. If I wanted to edit text, I have all of my formatting tools. I can insert pictures and so on. You probably know how to edit in this tool already. But you'll notice I…

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