

Apparently, the feature will arrive for all other Office 365 subscribers "soon. For now, if you want to take advantage of the AI-free to-do list feature, you'll need to be a member of the Office Insiders "Fast" ring. Once they've satisfied whatever the to-do called for, they can reply to the notification to inform you.Įventually, Microsoft says Office will automatically use AI to fill in "many" of these placeholder messages, though only time will tell how well that will work out. As mentioned in the example above, you can also your colleagues to ask them to complete a specific in-document task.ĭoing so will send them a notification with a "deep link" directly to the appropriate place in the document. Said list will be viewable by all collaborators they merely need to click on the checkbox icon to the left of the main text editing window. Much like you would when writing code, you'll soon be able to type things like "TODO: finish this section" or "TODO: introduce yourself here" to automatically add messages to a dedicated to-do list.

The company is in the early stages of testing a "to-do" feature in the Office 365 version of Word, according to a blog post published by Microsoft 365 VP Jared Spataro today. List sharing allows you to share any list with your friends and colleagues, and you’ll see the new icon in the top right of the app for creating an invitation link. What just happened? Have you ever found yourself wishing there was a way to keep track of certain key points you wanted to mention while writing a lengthy Word document? If so, Microsoft has you covered now - if you're an Office 365 user, that is.
