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lostintangent committed Jul 22, 2018
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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 someone, 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 be useful to temporarily follow a colleague as they move throughout the project. For this reason, 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 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 participant you want to follow.

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

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.
Since the pin is tied to an editor group, you can use split view (or grid layout!) to have a group that is pinned and a group that is unpinned. This allows you to passively follow someone while also working on something independently.

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

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