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Real time co-authoring in MS Word 2016
I was working with my manager this morning on an MS Word document saved to a SharePoint Online library. We were both working in MS Word 2016 (rich client) but we did not have a very good real time c...
Do you co-author frequently? Do you do it on different networks (E.g. wired, wireless, off site, from home)? Have you noticed variations in functionality on these different networks?
I co-author frequently and my experience is that with Word 2016 it works but updates are not constantly showing while they are being typed. It really depends on the speed of the internet that you are working on (and the co-author as well).
I presume that you used the default settings from word while using co-authoring (always share and presence flags unchecked) and that you installed the lastest updates from Word as well.
Real time Co-authoring works best (IMHO) with Word online, but we all know that the features there (and known issues with tabs, fonts etc.) are too limited.
I thought the real-time co-authoring experience was one of the key benefits of MS Word 2016 with other MS Word 2016 users. Did I misunderstand something? Based on my experience and Mike Platvoet experience it is pretty variable. Does anyone else want to weigh in? MSFT?????