

Click Settings Preferences Advanced Settings.On your computer, click the Drive for desktop menu.Learn how to work in Office files with others in real time.

Real-time presence is automatically on and alerts you when someone makes an edit in a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in Drive for desktop. Next to "Drive for desktop," check the box.On your Mac, click System Preferences Security & Privacy Privacy Accessibility.If you use Drive for desktop on macOS, you must change your system permissions to collaborate with other editors in real time: New versions are created when multiple people edit the Office file at the same time.To compare your version and the latest version side by side, click Preview.To get the new version, click Get latest. New Version Created: Someone created a new version.To learn more about who edits or views the file, click a person in the list.To get notified when you can edit, select Notify me when it’s safe to edit.Wait to Edit: You can’t edit the file yet.Based on the status, you get one of the following options: The real-time status displays at the bottom right.Open a shared file in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.On your computer, open Drive for desktop.When you store an Office file in Drive for desktop and share it with people who turn on real-time presence, you get an alert when someone makes a change. When you use Drive for desktop with Microsoft Office 2010 or later, real-time presence for Office files lets multiple people edit the same files without version issues.
