Microsoft Announces Excel Live
In this era of hybrid work, real-time interaction between remote workers can mean the difference between getting the work done today or adding another meeting to your calendar. To that end, Microsoft introduced PowerPoint Live in 2021, which transformed the experience of presenting in Microsoft Teams to make it more immersive and productive for everyone involved. This year at Microsoft Build 2022, wMicrosoft introduced Live Share (in Public preview), which gives developers the ability to take third-party apps beyond passive screen sharing and enables participants to co-watch, co-edit, and co-create in Teams.
Until now, sharing spreadsheets within a Teams meeting has been a fairly one-sided experience. You share a file, and everyone else watches while you make the updates. But what if your group could use that meeting time to get the work done together? Building on what we’ve learned and the evolving needs of today’s workplace, we’ve created an enhanced collaboration solution for working on Microsoft Excel workbooks—Excel Live—empowering your group to collaborate in real time within your Teams meetings.
How it works:
Click the Share tray in Teams. Scroll down to Excel Live, where you’ll see a list of your recent Excel workbooks.
Select the workbook you want to share. You’ll be asked to share access to the file with meeting participants. Choose Share.
After sharing access, everyone in the meeting can now edit the Excel file directly from the meeting screen in Teams.
The Teams meeting window now becomes a canvas for all participants to work together. Participants can follow the presenter, interact, and edit the workbook — without ever leaving the meeting screen. Participants don’t even need to have Excel running on their devices.
You can also access the Excel Live experience from within Excel for the web. For example, if you have a workbook open that you want to share in a Teams meeting, just click Share, then Work together in Teams.
Read the full announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/announcing-excel-live-transform-microsoft-teams-meetings-with/ba-p/3573371