Questions tagged [co-authoring]
Co-authoring feature in SharePoint Server 2013 or SharePoint Online to enable multiple users to work on a document, at any time, without interfering with each other's changes.
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Co-Authoring for SharePoint Subscription Edition Files
I’m looking into the Microsoft E5 license and wanted to confirm a few details. If I store Office files in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and open them using the Office desktop apps, will real-...
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Prevent user from "Rejecting All Changes" for other users in Word Document SharePoint Embedded
I am testing a Word co-authoring scenario and the behavior I'm experiencing doesn't seem right.
The scenario is a follows:
Word document is stored in SharePoint Embedded
Collaborators have links ...
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Co authoring in Excel and Word when using SharePoint 2016 and Microsoft 365 (Formerly Office 365) client
As per this article, Excel for Microsoft 365 does support co-authoring and every user must use same version.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-file-is-locked-for-editing-6fa93887-2c2c-...
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Requirements for coauthoring in SharePoint 2019
We have around 50 power point presentations and we want to coauthor them. we have around 30 users. we want to invest in SharePoint 2019, but does SharePoint server 2019 support coauthoring? If so, ...
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Can we allow users to edit a word document list fields (properties) while other users are modifying the word document itself
Inside our online document library, 2 users can edit the word document content at the same time using the co-authuring feature. but if someone is modifying a word document content and another user ...
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SharePoint Online - Excel File locked by User
We have a excel file in SP Online for which Co-authoring is enabled.
But very often the file gets locked that too with a particular user account.
The user (on whose name it displays as locked), he ...
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Initiating co-authoring of Word file in Sharepoint Online from other web application UI
We have files in Sharepoint Online (and OneDrive) in our O365 tenant, but Sharepoint Online is not used as UI for our internal systems. So now the requirement came up to initiate co-authoring in this ...
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Co-Authoring for Office documents inside sharepoint document libraries, can we do it when opening the documents using desktop applications
One of the features end-users always use, is the co-authoring of Office documents mainly excel sheet, where they open the excel sheet inside the browser, and 2 or more users can edit the document at ...
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Excel file locked by another user
I have an Excel file shared widely on SharePoint. Most users open the document with Excel Online. A couple times, I've seen when a user opens it with the Excel client, it then locks the file for ...
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Co-authoring in Sharepoint 2016 on-premises without Online Office Server?
Is co-authoring available with desktop app MS Word 2013 in Sharepoint 2016 on-premises without any Office Online Server?
I have a single Sharepoint 2016 server, checked out is turned off in the ...
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Word and Excel co authoring in SharePoint 2016
There is a lot of confusion on this topic so I just want to confirm if following is true:
Word = Supports co-authoring via both desktop application and Office Online Server/Office Web App Server
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On-prem Office Online Server don't show users markers when users co-working with documents
We have SharePoint 2016 Farm (build version 16.0.4417.1002) and Office Online Server (build version 16.0.6814.2226).
Our issue is that Office Online Server doesn't show users markers when multiple ...
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Bypass Office Web App and always use Coauthoring?
I believe we're on SharePoint Server 2013. I'm a user running Firefox 64-bit.
I'm looking for a one-click solution to opening a Word doc or PowerPoint in my desktop application, instead of right-...
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How to enable co-authoring on a SharePoint wiki page
I am trying to implement co-authoring for a SharePoint wiki library.
I have configured versioning and the other prerequisites are met as stated at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
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Configure the maximum number of co-authoring authors in SharePoint 2013 at Farm Level
With the help of below script and based on my requirement I am able to set my limit for co-authoring the authors for sharepoint documents at site collection level
$siteurl = "SiteURL"
$mysite=new-...
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