Are you a user of Dropbox? That is a pretty handy place to store some files that are of a non-sensitive nature, especially when it comes to PowerPoint slides, as well as family photo that are non-compromising in their own way. Of course, if you want to remain as reserved as possible, then forget about using Dropbox other than to stash away those pesky saved spam emails. Having said that, Dropbox has recently introduced the Project Harmony functionality that has been looked forward to for quite some time already, where it will offer the presence of collaboration tools in Microsoft Office desktop applications.
This new feature is known as “the Dropbox badge,” where it is introduced to the Dropbox for Business early access program. Project Harmony was initially announced in April earlier this year, where it has been touted to be a layer on top of Microsoft Office that paves the way for folks to work in real time when working with Office files in their Dropbox folders, and that is what is on the plate when it comes to the likes of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
In other words, you can check out other folks who happen to view or edit a given file, while notifying you whenever someone new joins in. Apart from that, you will be able to check out whether there is a more recent version of the file available, and the works.
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