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use @mention in the Office suites of software (Words, Excel, PowerPoint)

Currently, we are able to do commenting of the document in Box by using the @mention. But we are not able to do the same when we are editing document in the native Ms Office software eg Words, Excel & PowerPoint. The @mention does not work.

Would like to have the same feature when we are working in the native document?

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Fully support this request!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a critical feature. Users must be able to @mention others from within the Office app in Box. Commenting and mentioning in Preview mode is insufficient and significantly degrades the collaboration experience.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    We also need this implemented ASAP, this significantly impacts our collaboration performance in Box. @mention inside to MS Office documents is a must.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 please integrate this functionality.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 to this. Comments in Box aren't as effective or useful as being able to mention in the respective Office app

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    How is this not a thing already? Comments are useless without @ mentions

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 makes commenting useless

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Users used to SharePoint find this necessary to @ a team member to get their attention within the slides/presentation or Word document. This is extremely helpful for teams to quickly highlight text and comment with @. Please bring this feature while collaborating with MS office applications within Box asap! users are switching back to SharePoint to get this functionality for presentation and documents.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a fundamental feature to our organization , and not having it is a serious impediment to a business-wide Box deployment.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Still shocked that Box hasn't released this feature. Please include this in a future release!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature is fundamental in our organization. We are losing our adoption of box because of this feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature is fundamental in our organization, please bring it up on your priority list for implementation.

    Thanks,

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Used this all the time working from SharePoint, not sure why it's not in Box as it's very useful.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature is absolutely critical to the work of myself and my team. Please prioritize ASAP.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature would be extremely helpful

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is fundamental to creatives to know they can seamlessly collaborate on documents with team members, as the previous comment it was very useful in Sharepoint and needs to be added to Box.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1, this is a functionality that was very useful in Sharepoint that needs to be added to Box

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 to this, we have had constant requests from our users for this functionality and now that co-editing is possible via the Office integration it feels like this should be more technically feasible than it once was

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