Office Online will integrate a new feature called ‘document chat’ which will allow users to chat to one another and work collaboratively on documents. By simply clicking on the chat button in the upper right corner, users can chat with everyone working in the document, thus making it easy to communicate with colleagues.
WinSuperSite reported
that as of now, document chat is only available in Word Online and PowerPoint
Online which will send notifications to users and alert them to respond as
needed. When you initiate or accept a chat request, a chat pane will
appear, and it looks similar to the one you can see now in Outlook.com and
OneDrive.com.
With Skype available on
smartphones and tablets, and with it being introduced to web browsers recently, users can
continue their conversations once they are outside the document as well.
Microsoft hasn’t provided
details as to when exactly the feature will be available or any information on
how group chat would work.
Microsoft’s new feature does seem
familiar to Google Docs where users could chat to others
using Hangouts as a communication tool and could be helpful to
many Office Online users.
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