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["Image credit: skeeze / pixabay"]

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["One workbook, edited by multiple people; old way"]
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["Or, Share a Workbook and Lose the Ability to do 90% of Excel's Features"]
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["New Way:  Co-Authoring"]

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["Topics in this Episode"]
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[null,"How can two people edit the same Excel workbook at the same time?"]
[null,"This feature has been introduced in 2017 and is available to anyone using Office 365, Excel online, or Excel on the iPad."]
[null,"In order to co-author, the workbook has to be stored on the OneDrive or SharePoint."]
[null,"For regular features, like entering data and formulas, the co-authoring experience should be great."]
[null,"A colored box shows which cells are being updated. These boxes update quickly."]
[null,"Changes to other endpoints are shown in a few seconds."]
[null,"There are ways to break it - using Pens on the Draw tab of the Ribbon is one way."]
[null,"Excel might ask you to refresh the workbook on each endpoint if you hit one of these errors."]
[null,"The message telling you that the workbook could not be uploaded and offering Save a Copy is useless - you "]
[null,"would be creating a forked version of the workbook."]