Gongalong Posted October 2, 2015 Posted October 2, 2015 Hi folks, A purported feature of Office 2016 was that it would allow multi-user editing of Office 365 documents, much like the web version does. Except that it doesn't work, it only allows a single user to open an O365 document. Am I missing something here, has anyone got this to work?
nathan Posted October 2, 2015 Posted October 2, 2015 I've just been testing it, simple shared the document with another user and it worked fine
Gongalong Posted October 2, 2015 Author Posted October 2, 2015 So you could both open the same O365 document and edit it at the same time, using an Office 2016 application?
xlandhenry Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 As long as the file is shared on OneDrive/Sharepoint it can be opened and editted by multiple people at the same time, this is not a new feature of Office 2016. Oddly though Excel doesn't support this same time coauthoring. The new real-time coauthoring feature in Word 2016 only means users no longer need to hit save to see what others changed. 1
Gongalong Posted October 6, 2015 Author Posted October 6, 2015 Shucks, Excel is particularly where I wanted it.
nathan Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 it's also a shame it doesn't work via a shared drive and has to be uploaded to a cloud based service.
xlandhenry Posted October 12, 2015 Posted October 12, 2015 Shucks, Excel is particularly where I wanted it. For Excel you have to use the web app for same time coauthoring, unfortunately. 1
Gongalong Posted October 12, 2015 Author Posted October 12, 2015 Yep, that's what I wanted to avoid. The dedicated app is inevitably much better.
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