• @mentions will let teams of people work together on spreadsheets in real-time.
• The general availability date for the feature is October 2022, but some users may already have access.

Thanks to a new update, it might soon be a lot easier to make the monster Microsoft Excel workbook of your dreams.

Spreadsheet software can be hard to use, especially when teams of people are all adding to a central or main file that changes often and needs constant attention.

Microsoft Excel has announced that it will add a new feature called “@mentions” that will make working together on spreadsheets easier than ever.

@mentions in Microsoft Excel

@mentions allow Google Workspace users to tag colleagues within and outside their organisation. Tagged content can request corrections, more information, or clarification.

The Microsoft 365 roadmap says that you can use @mentions to “create, assign, and keep track of tasks in your workbook.”

The feature’s general availability date is October 2022, but it’s already in the “rolling out” stage, so some users may already have access.

For now, only desktop Excel users will be able to use this feature, but everyone in the world will be able to use the new feature.

Microsoft Excel’s latest upgrade encourages online team collaboration in the age of hybrid working.

Recently, the company added the option to add URLs to spreadsheet comments rather than copy and paste plaintext.

Excel Live will let Microsoft Teams users launch Excel documents from their meeting screen. Collaborators can modify a shared spreadsheet in real-time without leaving Microsoft Teams.

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