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File Lock Feature on Excel
Newer versions of Windows and Office do this automatically. Do your users get a notification that the file is locked for editing? At that point they can open in Read Only or Notify the user who has the lock?
sethwh the notification is from dropbox (which is how the file is shared), but it only lets you know that someone else is in the file- it does not lock anything. I know that dropbox has a file lock feature, but that is only accessible in the business version of dropbox which I do not want or need. Was just wondering if there was a similar feature in excel that was already a part of the program rather than having to add something on. I believe that we are running the most recent version of excel so maybe the sharing via dropbox cancels out the file lock?