Hi, Office Insiders. My name is Scott McFadden and I’m a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to share that you can now assign tasks with @mentions in worksheets in Excel for Windows and Excel for Mac!
Assign Tasks
We’ve brought this popular capability (previously only available in Excel for the web) to your Windows and Mac desktops.
This feature allows you and your team to conveniently create and assign tasks directly from within your Excel worksheet using @mentions in comments. The people to whom you assign the tasks will receive email notifications, letting them know they need to take action.
How it works
- Right-click the cell that contains the information you want to comment on and select New Comment.
- Write your comment and type @ followed by the name of the team member you want to tag.
- Select the Assign to check box to convert your comment into a task.
- Click the green arrow
or press Ctrl + Enter to post your comment and assign the task.
Scenarios to try
- Reassign a task
- Type @ followed by the name of the team member you want to reassign the task to in the response field, and then select the Reassign to check box.
- Click the green arrow or press Ctrl + Enter; the person to whom you reassigned the task will be notified via email that they’ve been assigned the task.
- Resolve a task
- Hover over the circle at the top of the comment and click Resolve thread.
- Reopen a resolved task
- Hover over the cell that contains the comment, and then click Reopen thread.
Requirements
To see Tasks in Excel, the Excel file must be stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.
Availability
This feature is available to all users on the web and to Beta Channel users running:
- Windows: Version 2208 (Build 15504.10000) or later
- Mac: Version 16.66 (Build 22090700) or later
Don’t have it yet? It’s probably us, not you.
Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it.
Feedback
There are a couple of ways to give feedback and suggestions:
- Click Help > Feedback.
- Add #AssignTasks in your feedback so that we can easily find input about the feature.
Learn what other information you should include in your feedback to ensure it’s actionable and reaches the right people. We’re excited to hear from you!