Onedrive documents - track individual changes

[joejoe666]

I am not sure where to post this. I posted this question in microsoft's website but no one has responded. So I posted here because your guys are experts and I can ask about other products

Background:
onedrive has a nice online office package for free, where i can invite anyone to edit my files (excel, word, ppt, onenote) and the nice thing is the other users do not need a onedrive account! they just use my invited link and i can see who is editing live.

It also has a built-in revision history, where I can restore or view older versions. However, it does not show who made, what changes, when.

Questions:
Is there a way to highlight by color or indicate different individuals who have made changes to specific cells in an excel file on onedrive?

Does any cloud based (free) docs editor do this? (google docs?)

 

[joejoe666]

shameless bump

 

[Imaginer]

Look under Review and enable Track Changes. It is within Excel, Word, etc. You have to enable a document or file to have that feature.

Office has always had this feature.

 

[joejoe666]

^^ there is no review tab on excel on onedrive. i don't think it is a full blown version.

 

[Imaginer]

^^ there is no review tab on excel on onedrive. i don't think it is a full blown version.

If you are viewing the excel file in a web browser, that would be what you would refer to as viewing it by Onedrive, of which doesn't support "shared workbooks" - and by extension tracked changes.

Trying it with one of my spreadsheets, it gave me that error message and referring to opening it under normal Office.

While not stated directly on their site for features, Word Online does not offer advanced collaboration which does include tracking changes. So currently, web versions do not offer distinction of tracking users' specific edits in files. That is what I am deducing here.

Funny, because Office desktop doesn't offer simultaneous opened file editing by more than one user in real time in Excel (One user is set for editing while the others view the last saved version, OneNote does however with shared notebooks) or real time file name change.

I think it is something the Office team in Microsoft is working on and addressing (I hope).

 

[joejoe666]

^^thanks for checking...and that sucks. how can they introduce a file editing product with no tracking ability?