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snyderdavida
Aug 13, 2018Brass Contributor
"Error:The file is locked" when using Office Online within SharePoint Online
At a current client I am seeing this scenario play out often: 1) User clicks on an Office document in a SPO document library, and it opens in a new tab in the associated Office Online app. They m...
Andrew Silcock
Apr 02, 2019Iron Contributor
Yes, seems to be happening for us still will_b .
No workaround for us seems to do the trick unfortunately.
SkinnyPete
Apr 30, 2019Copper Contributor
Andrew Silcock We have exactly the same issue and there does not seem to be a workaround, other than waiting for 30 minutes until the lock clears. This is absolutely unacceptable from a support perspective, users are not going to live with that.