Many users accessing the same Word document

[Robert Crandal]

All of our company data gets saved in a single Word
document file. Therefore, multiple users are often able
to open that same document simultaneously. If everyone
has the document open at the same time, who is allowed to
write changes to the commonly opened file?? Also,
if someone does write a change to the document, will
everyone automatically see the changes?? Or does some
refresh need to take place??

thank you

 

[Doug Robbins]

Word is not designed to be used in that way. It's one document one user.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Scott McPhillips [MVP]]

Such a capability is provided by Hiveware for Word:

www.hivewareforword.com

....which is not yet released but was demonstrated publicly at TechEd.
Interested in beta testing?

 

[Fumei2 via OfficeKB.com]

Wow. That Hivewareforword seems very very interesting. They are looking for
beta testers?

All of our company data gets saved in a single Word
document file. Therefore, multiple users are often able [quoted text clipped - 6 lines]

thank you

Such a capability is provided by Hiveware for Word:

www.hivewareforword.com

...which is not yet released but was demonstrated publicly at TechEd.
Interested in beta testing?

 

[Yves Dhondt]

That is about to change. Co-authoring is added to Word 2010
(http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/09/09/co-authoring-in-word-2010.aspx)
in combination with SharePoint.

I haven't had the chance to play with it myself, but it does look promising.

Yves