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[entremet]

My company has moved on from Google Docs to Office 365. Mostly due to the Excel superiority.

I've been googling, but I can't find a cohesive way to edit documents concurrently a la Google Docs, where you can see someone else editing a doc in real time.

Collaboration is big, but I'm having growing pains with my team. But I'm having to download files locally, which is not as nice. It still does save to a Sharepoint site.

It's just not as seamless as Google Docs.

Any MS experts here?

 

[Xamtheking]

I'm fairly certain there is no native way to do it in 365
Collaborative editing is a big pull for GDocs that separates it in some ways from 365

 

[QuantumZebra]

Host them in Sharepoint

 

[Subv3rsi0n]

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...OneDrive-ea3807bc-2b73-406f-a8c9-a493de18258b

 

[zeshakag]

You need to edit using the ONLINE office apps, i.e. "edit in browser".

And then it is not live letter by letter editing, but close.

This does not work when editing a share point doc in desktop apps.

 

[entremet]

Host them in Sharepoint

I'm on Mac. We're a mixed group--PC and Macs, but it seems Sharepoint is Safari only. Since we did GDocs for so long all the Mac users are on Google Chrome.

:/

 

[JaggedSac]

You could use OneDrive instead of Sharepoint for storing your files.

 

[QuantumZebra]

I'm on Mac. We're a mixed group--PC and Macs, but it seems Sharepoint is Safari only. Since we did GDocs for so long all the Mac users are on Google Chrome.

:/

Hmm... SharePoint definitely works in Chrome... do you mean having it implement into the file structure of the OS?

 

[soco]

AFAIK, it still doesn't do truly live editing. I haven't tried in a while, but the best I saw was notifications it'd been updated, and the ability to merge those in, but I don't know how well that works if you're editing in the same section.

 

[peach]

OneDrive
My school is trying to switch us over from Google to 365 with lots of resistance. I prefer Google mostly because of my familiarity with it.

 

[entremet]

Hmm... SharePoint definitely works in Chrome... do you mean having it implement into the file structure of the OS?

Just live editing. I tried Excel Online and it seems to pass, but MS seems to want to promote it' desktop applications.

 

[Izuna]

It's a mess, really. I don't bother with it.

I have a hard time getting OneNote to sync

 

[FrenchToastDisciple]

Microsoft once tried to convince me that two people were editing a document I was using at the same time (I had it open on another pc), and asked me if I wanted to see what the other person was doing (if I'm remembering correctly), so, yeah, it's probably possible through onedrive.

 

[U2NUMB]

My company did the same thing and it was super frustrating as the free google docs is super slick with this feature. You have to do it on the web and still go into an Edit mode for it to work. We often find that the changes do not sync well when more than one person is editing it which defeats the purpose.

Good luck... my team (the graphics team) still uses Google Docs and only uploads the export to O365 when we have to share it outside the department.

 

[Sydle]

Yeah, when you use the online version of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint in OneDrive or SharePoint online (not SharePoint server).

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Document-collaboration-and-co-authoring-EE1509B4-1F6E-401E-B04A-782D26F564A4?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1