Microsoft Office on Windows and macOS now supports co-authoring encrypted documents
People can now work together on an encrypted Microsoft Office document in real-time.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Office on Windows and Mac now supports co-authoring documents encrypted with sensitivity labels. The functionality works with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. The ability to co-author documents protected with encryption has been available in Office on the web since May 2020. Now, it’s made its way to the desktop versions of the Office apps.
ATech Community postexplains Microsoft Information Protection (MIP):
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is an intelligent, unified, and extensible solution to protect sensitive data across your enterprise – in Microsoft 365 cloud services, on-premises, third-party SaaS applications, and more. MIP provides a unified set of capabilities to know your data, protect your data, and help prevent data loss across Microsoft 365 apps (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and services (e.g., Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange).
Now, multiple people can work on these types of documents in real-time with AutoSave.
Microsoft outlines the requirements to use the new functionality:
To use the feature, all clients need to be updated to support themetadata changes for sensitivity labels.
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