Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

mlboucher — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:57 GMT

can't you guys just buy Codox for Word and be done with it? why reinvent the wheel when these guys have racing tires? Just sayin'.

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

corcoranc@stpetershigh.com — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:12:34 GMT

Hi Word Team,

Is there a way of tunring this feature on and off? I'm working on a shared area in a school and when one of my colleagues tries to open the document whilst another is already using it they get the standard read only/save locally/notify pop up. Do we have some settings in place preventing us from using this fantastic feature? I can change the 'track changes' option to on and off but can't see how many people are editing the document (presumably as they are given the read only version). I notice in your screen shots the 'File' tab on the ribbon has the windows logo instead of the word file. Does this have anything to do with it?

Thanks,

Chris.

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

Phodchara — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:53:56 GMT

HI Word Team

I try to used this feature. It's work very well but found 'A sync in real-time automatically' doesn't work on my test server.

The problem is other user can't see something change on that file in real-time.

Could you suggest me, How to fix this problem?

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

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re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

John — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:21:58 GMT

Many thanks for addressing my question. This is great stuff.

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

wrdblog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:54:52 GMT

Hi John – They will work just like they do today. For example, if we are co-authoring a document with Track Changes on, all of our changes will be tracked and “acceptable” and “rejectable” just like they are today. Same thing with comments. It’s just that now more than one person can add comments or tracked changes to the document at the same time. So maybe for your scenario, you could be adding comments to one part of the document, while one or more authors are working in another part of the document. Everything works the same, it’s just that now your team can work on one document (vs. many attachments) and your team can avoid getting locked out of the document. Does that help? If not, please tell me a bit more about your scenario so that I can be of more assistance. Thanks for the great question. - Jonathan Bailor (MS)

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

John — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:37:37 GMT

Hi Jonathan - As a copy editor, I'm curious how this will work with Comments and Track Changes. Copy editors have used Comments and Tracking for several years now to make recommendations and changes to an author's document. I'm not sure how these current features will work with co-authoring. Can you explain for me? Many thanks

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

wrdblog — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:28:02 GMT

Hi Mahmood - Thanks for your kind words. Co-authoring for Excel is available in the Excel Web App, the web version of Excel that was recently announced (see: blogs.msdn.com/.../9896401.aspx). Keep an eye on the Excel blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/) for more information regarding the Excel Web App and the co-authoring experience.

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

Mahmood Moghimi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:27:30 GMT

How interesting! Nice feature!

Does this feature available in excel 2010? for example, alerts the author while Co-authoring.

re: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

wrdblog — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:03:29 GMT

Hi Mary – Great question. Generally speaking, we protect users on the lowest level possible down to the paragraph. That means that if you are editing in a table we protect the paragraph within the table. Now a bit more specific, we protect on the:

- object level (i.e. pictures, shapes, etc)

- textbox level (different from tables because textboxes anchor)

- equation level

- field level

- header/footer level - Jonathan Bailor (MS)