Editing documents in Microsoft Office Online
Note: This feature is available on an Enterprise edition of Objective Connect and only when it is enabled for you.
To edit documents in Microsoft Office Online, you need to have:
- A Microsoft account to log into Microsoft Office Online
- As a workspace participant, the 'edit online' ability.
You can edit only Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents which have a pptx, xlsx and docx extensions in Microsoft Office Online.
- In Objective Connect, go to the workspace that has the document you wish to edit.
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Select for the document listed in the Documents section, then . Alternatively, open the document's preview and then select the button and .
Microsoft Office Online will open in a new browser tab. Depending on browser settings, you may need to allow Objective Connect to open a new tab or window, or allow pop-ups for Office Online to successfully open.
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If this is the first time you are using Microsoft Office Online, you will be prompted to enter your Microsoft account credentials.
The document opens up in Microsoft Office Online.
- After you have made your changes, close your document in Microsoft Office Online.
When a document is being edited in Microsoft Office Online, an icon is displayed next to it. For example:
- If you are using Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium), ensure that in your > , you have set Tracking prevention to Balanced.
- To maintain the security of sensitive documents, document download is disabled from Microsoft Office Online.
- When you are editing a document in Microsoft Office Online, if a new document version is uploaded in Objective Connect or if Objective Connect Link pushes a new version, your changes will be not be considered and will be overwritten.
- If several participants are updating a document in Microsoft Office Online, Objective Connect waits for everyone to close the document in Microsoft Office Online before creating a new version in Objective Connect.