Microsoft makes presentation app Sway suitable for collaborative users

Microsoft has made its presentation app Sway suitable for working on the same project with several people at the same time. In addition, the author can easily make a copy of an already created Sway presentation.

Sway, which is part of the Office family, is currently available as a beta product in the browser and as a mobile app. Via the application, photos, videos and text can be placed in an online presentation. Initially, a presentation could only be put together by an author, but Microsoft says in a blog post that Sway has been made suitable for working on a presentation with multiple users at the same time.

The author of a presentation can give others access to a presentation via an ‘edit link’. To prevent users from overwriting each other’s content, Sway displays a co-author’s initials with a “card” that is currently being edited. The original author can also revoke editing rights or make the presentation no longer publicly available. Microsoft has also built a copy option into the updated Sway. This makes it easy to reuse Sway presentations.