“Today, we launched real time presence to Google Docs presentations as well. Now, when editing a presentation with a co-editor, you can see which slides he is editing, and if he is editing the same slide, then you can see which element — text box, shape, image, video, etc. — he is editing,” Roshni Malani, software engineer at Google Docs, wrote.
The new feature is rather self-evident and certainly welcomed as the Docs bills itself as a collaboration suite and touts this as one of its main selling points. The feature had been available for the spreadsheet editor in Docs, where it was crucial to ensure that users didn’t write over each other. Now presentations get the same treatment allowing users to work together remotely without interfering with each other’s work.
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