Abstract: In various implementations, a productivity application allows selected content from an electronic document to be shared with and edited by multiple users through instances of a collaboration component. The collaboration component includes a distributed data structure that stores state information about the shared content. The component also includes application logic for managing the state information to reflect user edits and other such changes. This allows the selected content to be shared with the users in any application that supports the collaboration component and without the entirety of the document having to be shared. A user can experience the content in the context of applications other than the productivity application that hosts the document.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating response components in a shared file. In one aspect, a response component may be generated in a local instance of a shared file to obtain input from collaborators through other instances of the shared file. The other instances of the shared file may be updated to include the response component. Results data generated by the response component in the other instances of the shared file may be received. An aspect of the shared file based on the received results data may be modified.

Abstract: In various implementations, a productivity application allows selected content from an electronic document to be shared with and edited by multiple users through instances of a collaboration component. The collaboration component includes a distributed data structure that stores state information about the shared content. The component also includes application logic for managing the state information to reflect user edits and other such changes. This allows the selected content to be shared with the users in any application that supports the collaboration component and without the entirety of the document having to be shared. A user can experience the content in the context of applications other than the productivity application that hosts the document.

Abstract: In various implementations, tools and features of productivity applications may be shared across companion devices to manipulate a document and/or application surfaced in a user interface of a primary device. The companion devices may synchronize state information to edit or otherwise interact with the document and/or application. For example, state information of a the document and/or application displayed in a user interface of the primary device may be shared with one or more companion devices, which in turn surface suggestions and/or tools curated based on the state information. A user may use the productivity tools to manipulate content of the document or otherwise interact with the application running on the primary device.