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Iron Contributor

Aug 04, 2017

Skype Chat within Word Online

The following document by Office blogs state that within a collaborated document either in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online that there is a chat icon next to the people who are co...

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RobOK

Bronze Contributor

Aug 07, 2017

I think it has to be in a Co-edit-able document, meaning NOT in a Document Library that requires Check Out (which many of ours do). Once co-editing, a little dialog icon shows up (light blue) that if you click on opens a sidebar chat window. The chat window is not branded as Skype, I wish it was. The chats are not persisted from one session to the next.

Rob.

jay ralston

Copper Contributor

Nov 20, 2017

Hi there,

I know this is an old thread, but it exactly describes my problem. So the client wants a library within Shreapoint to be able to store multiple docs and chat within those docs with Office Online. What sort of Sharepoint App should I add in order to achieve these objectives and is "Co-edit-able". Thanks heaps in advance

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 20, 2017
As we have said here, there is not a setting to enable SBO in Office Online...it should appear by default. What Office 365 Plan do you have?
- jay ralston
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 20, 2017
  This tenant is Office 365 Business Essentials, however I have tried the same thing with my own E3 tenant and it behaves exactly the same. The attachment is a screen shot of what I am experiencing, as you can see Skype for Business is signed in, I am using Edge. I'm unsure where the problem lies.
  
  Thank you