{"id":3283,"date":"2019-02-28T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:12:43","slug":"what-are-mentions-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"What are @Mentions in Office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3286\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mentions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How many times,. when you are working on documents with someone else, do you want to ask them a question?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Why did you add (or remove) this section?<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0<em>&#8220;How does this calculation work?&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and so on.<\/p>\n<p>So, you stop what you are doing, send them an email or make a phone call, and then try to describe the section of the file you are asking about, as well as your question.\u00a0 It can easily become time consuming and frustrating.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so much easier just to be able to point to the item you want to clarify.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s been possible for a while using &#8216;comments&#8217; in Word and Excel, but it&#8217;s not commonly used.\u00a0 That&#8217;s mainly because it&#8217;s a little obscure to find, and the person you are asking needs to know that you&#8217;ve even asked a question.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you could get Office to do that for you?<\/p>\n<p>[header2 text=&#8221;Now you can!\u00a0\u00a0Coming (now-ish) to a PC near you!&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; color=&#8221;#336A40&#8243; margintop=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>For anyone using Office 365, you will be able to make comments directly in Office and it&#8217;ll post them out to the person you are asking.<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do is give\u00a0[wow_colorme]<a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/use-mention-in-comments-to-tag-someone-for-feedback-644bf689-31a0-4977-a4fb-afe01820c1fd#id0eaabaaa=windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0&#8216;@Mentions'[\/wow_colorme]<\/a> a go.<\/p>\n<p>When you insert a comment in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you can use @mention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OfficeComments1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3285\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OfficeComments1-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This will prompt you to share the document with the mentioned party (if they don&#8217;t have access) and send a link to the document<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OfficeComments2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3284\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OfficeComments2-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already go this feature, then you&#8217;ll get it soon.\u00a0 The exact timing just depends on how quickly you&#8217;ve set our machine to get Office updates (fast or slow &#8211; how often you like things changing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times,. when you are working on documents with someone else, do you want to ask them a question? &#8220;Why did you add (or remove) this section?&#8220;,\u00a0&#8220;How does this calculation work?&#8221;\u00a0and so on. 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