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* Manual Join: Fix Visual Studio link (microsoft#690)

The links on How-tos are both to VS Code, this fixes the VS link.

* Adding community video

* Updating follow mode description
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## Following

Sometimes you need to explain a problem or design that spans multiple files or locations in code. In these situations, it can useful to temporarily follow a colleague as they move throughout the project. For this reason, as a guest, when you join a collaboration session you will automatically "follow" the host. When following a participant, your editor will stay in sync with their currently open file and scroll position.
Sometimes you need to explain a problem or design that spans multiple files or locations in code. In these situations, it can useful to temporarily follow a colleague as they move throughout the project. For this reason, as a guest, when you join a collaboration session you will automatically "follow" the host. When following someone, your editor will stay in sync with their currently open file and scroll position.

> **Note:** Currently Live Share does not follow participants into files or folders outside of the shared folder root [(up-vote 👍)](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/54).
To start following a participant (as either a host or guest), click the pin icon in the upper right of the tab set.
To start following a participant (as either a host or guest), click the pin icon in the upper right of the editor group, or press **Ctrl+Alt+F / Cmd+Alt+F**.

![VS Code pin](../media/vscode-pin.png)

If more than one other person is in the collaboration session you'll be asked to select the guest you want to follow.
If more than one other person is in the collaboration session, you'll be asked to select the guest you want to follow.

![Screen shot showing list of collaborators](../media/vscode-list-collaborators.png)

Since the pin is tied to a tab set, you can use split view to have a set that is pinned and a set that is unpinned if you so desire.
Since the pin is tied to an editor group, you can use split view to have a group that is pinned and a group that is unpinned. This allows you to passively follow someone while working on something independently.

![VS Code pin in split view](../media/vscode-pin-split.png)

To make it easy to switch out of "follow mode" and start editing on your own, you'll stop following if any of the following happens:
To make it easy to switch out of "follow mode" and start editing on your own, you'll automatically stop following if any of these occur:

1. You edit, move your cursor, or make a selection
2. You select another file
3. You click the pin icon again
1. You start editing the currently active file
1. You open a different file
1. You close the currently active file

Afterwards, simply click the pin icon again to follow them once again. Note that if you just want to jump to someone's location rather than following them, simply double-click the pin.
Additionally, you can explicitly stop following someone by clicking the pin icon again or hitting **Ctrl+Alt+F / Cmd+Alt+F**.

## Listing participants

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