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SharePoint Online: Co-authoring with differing versions of Word
Does co-authoring have issues when authors are using different versions of Word? If yes, any solutions other than using Word Online, which has some functionality limits. We are using SharePoint ...
Sorry I was thinking Excel, that requires recent Excel. Here is a post I found detailing coauthoring with SharePoint Online / OneDrive: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Document-collaboration-and-co-authoring-EE1509B4-1F6E-401E-B04A-782D26F564A4
However folks can lock files by turning off Auto-Save or if they have that off by default it will basically lock the file. It's here in the top left corner of Office client:
Thanks for the screenshot Christopher.
The button looks unfamiliar to me. Since I am on Office 2013, I suspect that the button is part of the 2016 package. I wonder if there is a counterpart to that button in Office 2013.