Apr 19 2018 07:00 AM
Is there any published information regarding limits to co-authoring in Office Online? I've received some reports that Excel sheets were nearly unusable when the number of co-authors went above 10. I've personally never edited with this many authors, but I can't find any documentation with any hard limits around this.
Thanks!
Apr 19 2018 07:47 AM
Apr 19 2018 07:49 AM
Apr 19 2018 07:49 AM
Apr 19 2018 08:06 AM
Since that article applies to Sharepoint 2013, do you think it is relevant here? It could be that co-authoring limits are the same across products, but I'm not certain of this.
And the users in question were either using Office Online embedded in Teams, or using Office Online directly. We don't currently support the Office 365 Pro Plus deployments, and our Office client applications are not signed in to Office 365.
Apr 19 2018 08:09 AM
SolutionApr 19 2018 10:55 AM
And keep in mind that Excel has always been a little... special when it comes to co-authoring.
Feb 11 2019 08:54 AM
apologies for dragging up an old post..
probably noteworthy that that the specific recommendation relating to Co-authoring doesn't include XLSX .
"Coauthoring in Word and PowerPoint for .docx, .pptx and .ppsx files "
Though I recall (perhaps I'm mistaken) that at one point Co-authoring was NOT supported in Excel (unless the spreadsheet was a "shared workbook")
I understood that co-authoring is now possible in Excel and has been for some time. However, I've recently heard people mentioning that they've struggled with co-authoring in Excel and people asking is co-authoring supported in Excel.
I assume that there aren't issues if co-authors/collaborators are both using Excel Online?
I'd suspect that "Open in Excel" is used more than "Open in <any other Office tools>" because the experience is better (or there are features of the worksheet that are unsupported in Online) .
Are , or rather WERE the issues with co-authoring in Excel , likely to be related to the older OneDrive Groove.exe sync client? i.e. the changes made locally were not being synchronised with the Online copy and therefore not synchronising with other co-authors? (One would assume that this will have improved therefore with the wider adoption new gen sync client)
Feb 11 2019 08:59 AM
Feb 11 2019 09:09 AM
Thanks @Chris Webb good to know.
When you say recently.. ball park are we talking the last year or is it available for longer than that?
Cheers.
Feb 11 2019 09:11 AM
Apr 19 2018 08:09 AM
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