Can two people work on the same Word document at the same time?

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Sara - 30 Apr 2008 16:24 GMT

I know that you can do it in Excel by creating a shared workbook.

But can you do something similar in Word?

Help! I'm desperate with a deadline!

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JoAnn Paules - 30 Apr 2008 16:47 GMT

No - and if you could, I still wouldn't recommend it. <shiver!>

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>I know that you can do it in Excel by creating a shared workbook.
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> But can you do something similar in Word?
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> Help! I'm desperate with a deadline!

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Sara - 30 Apr 2008 16:53 GMT

I kinda agree... but why then can you do it in Excel? Strange.

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JoAnn Paules - 30 Apr 2008 17:10 GMT

Don't know - but I wouldn't do it there either. (I don't think that shared
workbooks work quite the way you're thinking tho. Access will allow multiple
users to enter data at the same time tho.) Maybe if I worked with people who
were a bit more computr savvy but even then I'd hesitate.

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>I kinda agree... but why then can you do it in Excel? Strange.
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Tony Jollans - 30 Apr 2008 17:00 GMT

Sorry, no. Desperate or not, it can't be done.

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>I know that you can do it in Excel by creating a shared workbook.
>
> But can you do something similar in Word?
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> Help! I'm desperate with a deadline!

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