Microsoft announces sharing experience improvements for 365 and Office apps in its ‘Year of Sharing’

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What you need to know

Microsoft has kicked off its Year of Sharing, which is all about improving the sharing experience for 365 and Office apps. Updates will be incremental and built so that the developers behind the tools have time to listen to feedback and address it, ensuring that the Year of Sharing is feedback-driven and truly beneficial to end-users.

As for what improvements you can expect throughout the year, here’s a quick rundown of the highlights, including a few items that are available right this very moment:

Here are images of two items from the above list that are rolling out right now, quick permissions and the additional entry point for link settings. First, let’s take a look at the quick permissions menu.

And here’s where that new link settings entry point will be.

For a full rundown of what each of these features looks like and does, you can check out Microsoft’sYear of Sharing postto see the expanded details firsthand. From there, you can also easily access the Microsoft 365 Roadmap pages for each item to know exactly when each of the not-yet-released improvements is slated to arrive (spoiler: Expect many of these updates in November).

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