Today, Microsoft announced a new method for sharing files from Microsoft 365 apps. Called "
Publish to web," it allows users to share "clean, polished documents" with other users
without revealing inside bits, such as edits, comments, version history, and more. Without this feature, users have to do the cleanup manually, which takes time and effort. Now, Microsoft 365 can take care of that for you, upload a document to the web, and
generate a link so that you can send a read-only document without internal information.
Microsoft says "Publish to web" also
eliminates accidental data leaks where confidential or sensitive information leaves the company unnoticed in a note, comment, or a previous version that the sender forgot to clean. When using the new feature, the receiving side gets only the finalized, polished, read-only document.
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