The article says that other office apps can only do collaborative document work in their browser versions, but I thought Word can do it natively as long as the document is in OneDrive/Sharepoint/whatever microsoft came up with next?
I recall opening a shared document locally with Word and being able to collaborate.
Nevertheless, amazing news for Libre software!
Yes, Word (and only Word) can edit collaboratively on the desktop if the document is in SharePoint (and OneDrive, because OneDrive is SharePoint).
Okay yeah thought I misunderstood something. Thanks!
And teams is SharePoint too…lol pieces of shit software.
Nah, excel and ppt collab is also possible in the desktop apps.
Only for OneDrive. SharePoint documents lock excel tables and only one person can edit at a time. Though multiple instances can see and update the changes as the locked version is updated. Something about credentials.
Yes MS office can do it natively in the apps now. but that does use one drive sync. It didn’t have that support at first, so you had to use web version for collab.I assume the author is going off old info. That being said, I wouldn’t be suprised if MS tries to make the local programs a web shortcut someday.
Libre working towards live collaboration is huge, it’s probably the biggest modern features keeping IT nerds from pushing to their bosses as a free replacement for Microsoft.
