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Office 365 doesn't allow two people to work on the same document at the same time? That's unbelievable. Isn't that 70% of the point of online document editing?
by colinbartlett 13y ago
Office 365 doesn't allow two people to work on the same document at the same time? That's unbelievable. Isn't that 70% of the point of online document editing?
- revorad 13y agoIt does but only from the web app, not across web, desktop and mobile clients, as shown in the screenshot in the post.
- ams6110 13y agoSeems to me that I've had multiple people editing an Excel spreadsheet that was shared in a Dropbox folder, and it worked. Maybe we just got lucky, also it was a pretty simple spreadsheet, basically a task list.
- Spooky23 13y agoYup, Office, including Excel, allows up to about 5 users to collaboratively edit a document hosted on a local drive or SMB share. This has worked this way going way back -- as far as Office 1997 I believe. I think it uses a lockfile to do this. It works, but it doesn't scale up well. IIRC, after about 3 people, the effectiveness drops substantially.
- Spooky23 13y agoThe restrictions are only for Excel. The other apps support many users.