Hi :) This seems to be normal behaviour. The first person to open the document should be able to edit it. If the document is then opened a 2nd and 3rd (or more) time then it can only be edited by the 1st one. The other people can open it as "read only".
If everyone could edit the same cells at the same time then there might be some confusion about which edit to keep because there are a lot of contradictory 'obvious' answers. It might be worth trying to open the document in google-docs a number of times and see how it gets handled there. Good luck and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Stefano Fraccaro <druid...@libero.it> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 11 February, 2011 9:08:34 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking Hi, I have strange behaviour with file locking when xls file are accessed by LibreOffice and Excel. Situation: * user A with Excel 2000 * user B with LibreOffice 3.3 / OpenOffice 3.2 Step to reproduce: * user A open, modify,save and close "example.xml" file with Excel 2000 * user B open "example.xml" with LibreOffice 3.3 * user A open "example.xml" and Excel tell the user that file is opened by user A (expected: user B) * user A open "example.xml" with LibreOffice and the program tell the user that file is opened by user B (as expected) Users may be confused by this messages. Is a bug or a well know behaviour? Stefano Fraccaro -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***