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Stephen Bell
Iron Contributor
Apr 30, 2018

Excel Windows Client co-authoring

Hey everyone -

 

I have read a few other posts on this topic, but none of them seem to be a smoking gun for me.

 

I am trying to co-author an excel document with other members of my team.  We are all running version 16.0.8431.2242.  

 

Here is how we are attempting:

1.  We have an excel document that is part of an Office 365 Group.

2.  The O365 group is synced to our machine using OneDrive for Business.

3.  The excel file has been shared with the members of the team.

4.  Whenever we attempt to get more than 1 person in the file, the additional authors receive a message that the file is locked for editing.

 

According to what I have been reading, the version we are running should support co-authoring in the windows client app, correct?  I haven't seen many mentions of attempting this via groups / OFB - but if that is what is causing the issue - how should we be doing this?

 

Thanks

Steve

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