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It does but only from the web app, not across web, desktop and mobile clients, as shown in the screenshot in the post.
by revorad 13y ago
It 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.