Update, November 8th 8:50AM : Article updated to note that Google Docs also has automatic suggestions. Microsoft is also planning to bring this to other Office apps in the future based on feedback from testers. Once testing is finalized, this will be broadly rolled out to existing Office 365 customers. Surprisingly, Microsoft is making this available initially to testers of Office for Mac today, with a Windows version set to be tested in the coming weeks. It makes Word more collaborative and similar to Google’s approach with Docs, which lets you tag multiple people in a document alongside automatic suggestions. Besides best in class mobile apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and web, To Do is also deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 hubs, Outlook, and Teams. To Do is ideal for personal tasks across work and life whereas Planner is ideal for team tasks. ![]() It’s a clever new feature that will certainly speed up collaborative work in Word, especially as the email notification can be used to insert content into docs. To Do and Planner form the backbone of tasks in Microsoft 365. You don’t even need to open that document to see the graph a sidebar will simply highlight the graphs in those documents to let you quickly insert them. In time, even phrases like “>” will be detected, and Word will suggest recent documents to add content. Microsoft is using machine learning to discover these notes in documents. For example, if a colleague has asked for an image to be added to a document and tagged you in it, you can simply reply to the email with the image and it will be inserted into the document. ![]() The notification will trigger an email to a colleague, but you can actually take action on the document and notification by replying to that email. You can reply to an email to insert data into a document
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