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Monday, March 23, 2015 3:31 PM
I want to have an Excel Doc and a Word doc that I can collaborate on with multiple users over a LAN NOT cloud services. In other words I would, for example, want to have them reside on a network share and have 10 people open them up and actively change cell data in the workbook and have it reflated on all the other users systems immediately, ala Google Sheets (I know, that's in the cloud, but the way it works is what I want, but on a LAN). Same for the Word doc.
We currently update this data on SharePoint, but unless you refresh you never see the changes and the interface to SharePoint worksheets just plain sucks.
We are using Windows 7/Office 2013.
-Jim
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:18 AM âś…Answered
Hi,
Ok, Excel 2013 does not support Co-authoring feature yet, but we can use Co-authoring feature with Excel web app via SharePoint server/Office Web Apps Server. We may deploy an Office Web Apps Server in LAN.
See this:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249(v=office.15).aspx
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 5:30 AM
Hi,
Based on your request, if we want to collaborate on with multiple users over a LAN in Excel and Word, they may use different ways to get your goal.
Excel:
We can use the "shared workbook" feature. The process works like this: You share a workbook, and as part of sharing, you save the workbook. Someone else then copies the shared workbook and adds their data to the copy. When they're done, you merge the data from the copy back into the original.
For more detail information, please refer to the following link:
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Word:
Word has no build-in feature to do this. We need to use co-authoring feature in SharePoint Server 2013 or SharePoint Online to enable multiple users to work on a document, at any time, without interfering with each other's changes.
For more detail information, please refer to the following link:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Hope it's helpful.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office programs.
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected].
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:23 PM
Thank you for the reply. But in this case I'm afraid that won't work. I need it to be real time,no saving back and forth. The best example would be Google Sheets.
-Jim