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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by discordance on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:47AM (#20418544)
If it's O365 Excel, then you can share and work on the same spreadsheet in a similar way to Google Sheets (seeing other peoples real time cursor in your spreadsheet etc).
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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by ryanjshaw on Friday July 12, 2019 @02:21AM (#20418682)
Be very, very careful with this. There are some update/race condition bugs in Excel Online that result in multiple users causing bulk updates to incorrectly update the filtered/sorted view of other users.
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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by unixhero on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:56AM (#20419051)
This race condition happens often. In fact about every time I try to rely on it with my team. Such a shame Google Drive isn't seem as a "trusted platform" in my client environment.
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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by DonHopkins on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:20PM (#20426113)
Douglass Engelbart rolls over in his grave.
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