Hi!

We are working with Office 2010 and Office 2013. Our clients are getting an office-registry-pack from us with, amongst others, opendocumentsreadwritewhilebrowsing = 1, and UseOnlineContent = 1. However, when they use the online content from our server they still get read-only.

We are running a Server 2008r2, with Office 2010 and our clients are using a windows 7 with office 2010. 

Any help?

Hi

According to your description, you want to let multiple users edit one document at the same time.

Word does not support document sharing in this way. In Excel it works, because each cell can individually be assessed and simultaneous changes of the same cell can be flagged and left up to human intervention as to which change wins.

Some of our customers found some third party software called Codoxword that can let multiple users edit the same MS Word document at the same time, you might check if it works in your situation.

Thanks

Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

Hi

Thanks for reply, but you missunderstand. They are not supposed to work on the same document at the same time, but same document on different occations.

In my case they are working on two brand new documents using the same template. One can download and open the file without read-only, the other one can't. They have all the same registry-settings, same office-pack, and same type of computer.

I had a really good impression of the Technet support site during my bachelor thesis during the spring.. but now it's just awful.

Takes forever to get a respons, and when it turns out that the respons was not helpful you never answer new questions.. This is absolutely horrible.
It's better to say you don't know than not to answer

Hi Karpets

I'm really sorry for the delay.

In your last post, did you mean after you download the file to local machine you still cannot edit it?

Check the properties or the permissions to make sure thay are not restricted to only give her read only access

We recommend you copy the contents to a new blank workbook to check the issue.

You might also start Excel in safe mode to check the issue: Hold "Ctrl" key and click into the program.

You might also refer to the article below to see if it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814112

Regards

Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

They are using the the Word-file through our Webdav-server which is based on a Windows Server 2008 r2. So they aren't downloading it to their local machine. When they save the file it's supposed to save directly to the server.

Permissions to the folders are everyone full control. We have several users where it works, but for some reason some clients have difficulties.

Still no help? Really? It's been twelve days..!

The forum is not custoomer support. It is free community support by volunteers. Your quesiton is quite vagu.

When we opndocuments with WebDav they are opened on the server.  THe first user gets a writable copy and the next gets a read only copy.  It is only in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 that we can now collaborate on Sharepoint.

In 2008 if you need collaboration place the documments on a file share and not on a web server.

I know its not customer support, but the webdav-solution is a microsoft-related product.

By the answers I've gotten here, I can see that you don't understand what the problem was. There's no collaboration involved, it's just that when the file was opened from webdav, it was opened from the server, and "downlaoded" to the clients computer, so they could edit it. Only one user has access to their own doucments. So there's only one opened version of the document at the time.

However, when it's been over a year since the last question, there is no need to answer. We've chosen to go another way, which does not have this problem.

Hello,

We just migrated to a new SharePoint 2013 server (clean install, no database migration). We are experiencing the same issue. We are using Office 2013 on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. We did not have this issue on our old SharePoint 2010 server. Was a solution ever found for this issue?