Can two or more people edit an Excel document at the same time

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I have a SharePoint 2010 site with a document library for storing Excel files   If someone is editing an Excel file  using stand-alone Excel  not Excel services   everyone else will be forced to open the file read-only until the first person is done editing   Is there a way around this   What I want is to allow two or more people to be able to edit the file at the same time   Also  I don t want people to overwrite each other   Instead  I d like SharePoint to merge their changes   Is this possible in SharePoint 2010

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The new version of SharePoint and Office (SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010) respectively are supposed to allow for this. This also includes the web based versions. I have seen Word and Excel in action do this, not sure about other client applications.

I am not sure about the specific implementation features you are asking about in terms of security though. Sorry.,=

Here is a discussion

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx

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yes if it is SharePoint 2010 and above by using the Office feature co-authoring

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Unfortunately  the file must be locked for updates unless you re using Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 together  This means that only one user per time can edit a file  The locking and version tracking capabilities of SharePoint are excellent  and this makes it a great tool for the type of collaboration you re talking about  but you would have to split documents into multiple files in order to extend the amount that could be edited  at a time  For instance  we sometimes unmerge documents into technical  requirements  and financials sections so that the 3 experts required for the review can work concurrently  We then merge when everyone is finished

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Yes you can  I ve used it with Word and PowerPoint   You will need Office 2010 client apps and SharePoint 2010 foundation at least  You must also allow editing without checking out on the document library   It s quite cool  you can mark regions as  locked  so no-one can change them and you can see what other people have changed every time you save your changes to the server  You also get to see who s working on the document from the Office app  The merging happens on SharePoint 2010

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No  sadly      The Excel 2010 client application does not support co-authoring workbooks in SharePoint Server 2010  However  the Excel client application does support non-real-time co-authoring workbooks stored locally or on network  UNC  paths by using the Shared Workbook feature  Co-authoring workbooks in SharePoint is supported by using the Microsoft Excel Web App  included with Office Web Apps   From Co-authoring overview  SharePoint Server 2010      and not for SharePoint 2013 either  Though it  works for pretty much all other Office documents  Go figure

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