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Comments Only in Word?
Is it possible to share a Word 365 document such that viewers may add comments?
We want to get people's input but don't want them to make changes to the document. There's too many people and would be impossible to manage.
Google Docs has this feature, so I'm hoping that Word does too.
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Yes, use the Protect document feature as detailed here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Allow-changes-to-parts-of-a-protected-document-187ED01C-8795-43E1-9FD0-C9FCA419DADF
Hi VasilMichev
Thank you.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but what we need is a way to have 6 people add comments, simultaneously while we go through a rather large document.
This feature seems to not be compatible with Word in the cloud and as a result would need everyone to download a local copy of the document, which could cause syncing and versioning issues.
Do you have a solution to that?
Co-authoring (simultaneous edit) is definitely supported in O365, as long as the file itself is stored within a document library with versioning enabled. Some elements of a document can only be edited via the full desktop version though (which still allows co-authoring).
