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IanH1
Mar 24, 2020Copper Contributor
Working with excel in Sharepoint desktop app
Can anyone help with this? My team is using SharePoint. Sometimes when a user closes an EXCEL file they open in Desktop APP and try to log back in the same file again they ...
Mar 25, 2020
Make sure they have later versions of office installed and that auto save is turned on. Utilizing auto save allows coauthoring and multiple people to open documents and this usually will help stop that issue. Otherwise excel will lock the files while in use and could cause the issue you are experiencing.
If that isn’t an option syncing the files with onedrive from the SharePoint library could improve this.
If that isn’t an option syncing the files with onedrive from the SharePoint library could improve this.