Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Collaboration Features

In office environments, a document is often the product of multiple people. In the old days, a draft worksheet or financial report would be printed and circulated among reviewers. Along the way, it would be marked up with colored ink and covered with sticky notes full of comments. Some poor soul would have to make sense of all the markups and notes to create a clean document. The process was time consuming and was sometimes repeated through several drafts to fine-tune the document for publication.

Microsoft Excel, which is widely used in office environments, includes many features that make the collaboration process quicker and easier:

• Properties stores information about the document's creator and contents.

• Comments enables ...