Enabling Co-Authoring for Microsoft Office Documents

When co-authoring is enabled, many people can edit Office documents together. There are two versions of the co-authoring feature: desktop co-authoring and web co-authoring.

With desktop co-authoring, users can edit documents together with Microsoft 365 desktop applications in M-Files Web and the new M-Files Desktop. Desktop co-authoring is available for M-Files Cloud customers in selected M-Files platform editions. When this feature is enabled, it is the default edit operation for documents that can be co-authored.

With web co-authoring, users can edit documents together with Microsoft Office for the web. Web co-authoring is available in M-Files Web, the new M-Files Desktop, and the classic M-Files Desktop.

Note: You can only enable one type of co-authoring in one vault.