Link only answer with many steps

Question

This is my answer.

I've searched a bit in meta and I think I've got a feel of what should be done with link-only answers.

However, in that question, there are some options for real-time collaborating. I only mentioned a few, but there are too many steps to be included in the post, so I leave it for the OP to choose what's best for his situation.

I'm not whining about the downvote, but I really want to know what can I do to improve the post, given the nature of the answer requires too many steps to be included in the answer.

Answer 1

I guess this is the most relevant meta post.

In this case, there's nothing too terrible with your answer, there's a few points.

Firstly, that he's using office 2016/365 probably should be explicit in the question. Right now, it isn't. If he's on an older version "use a newer major version you don't have" would be written differently.

Exact version numbers would be nice since this feature will be drifting into non fast ring versions eventually.

I've often found if you've used this feature, its neat to actually "build your own tutorial" on how to use a tool, and try to make a more elegant set of instructions on how to do it.

I don't consider this downvotable, but that's my read on it.