I'm not sure if this is quite what we experienced. You say, unless co-authoring is enabled, each 'save' will save as a new version. The only scenario where this wouldn't happen I guess would be human error or some other variable. To them through File Explorer and open the actual synced copy. Also we tend to edit all our documents 'live', that is, we navigate Is there a way to check?įrom what I understand the document in question has been edited by 2 users before at the same time - suggesting that co-authoring is enabled here too (is this done by default?). On documents with colleagues before and the changes have saved simulatenously. I have no idea if it is enabled in all honesty as I'm not the administrator for our Sharepoint Site however my experience of other subsites suggests it is because I've collaborated I've just been doing some reading about co-authoring. Twitter: Follow remember to mark your question as 'answered' if this solves your problem. Principal Architect: Blue Chip Consulting Group When it works its great, but it is also fairly touchy and version sensitive. That's the way it has always worked except in cases of co-authoring. Since the one without was saved later it is the current version. So when the one author saved his modifications it saved, but then the next author saved his changes over that It that is opened co-authoring won't work because the file is being opened from a different location by each user.) But I'm not sure if co-authoring will work if you don't open the document through the web UI.Īs I said, I suspect what you have experienced is two users who opened the same file for editing, but where co-authoring didn't get enabled. (I'm still not clear on your use of the term 'synced' since that implies the use of the OneDrive for Business sync engine to establish a local 'synced' copy of The second issue may be the use of Windows Explorer to open the file. So your first problem may just be a result of using Office 2016. Co-authoring is enabled by default if both users open the document from the SharePoint site and have a compatible Office Application.

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