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    How to Get around shared .DOC and .XLS

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    by chiangchien ·

    Have you ever noticed the annoying window that pops up when you try to open a microsoft office file that someone is already in? It asks you if you would like to open a read-only copy. Is there any way around this? The main reason why this pops upfor our company is when we look at our to-do lists. They are in Excel format and the bosses are always adding to them while we try to complete them. Therefore, the file-sharing/access problem occurs rather frequently. Does anyone know of either away around this issue or a good to-do program that avoids or provides the solution? Please advise as I would like to get this issue of my to-do list soon! Thank you.

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      How to Get around shared .DOC and .XLS

      by some guy ·

      In reply to How to Get around shared .DOC and .XLS

      In Excel, you the option under Tools to Share Workbook. Look at the help on Share Workbook. I think that will give you what you want. That option does not appear in Word.

      Outlook has the ability to assign a task(to-do) and track it. Try playing with the tasks function and see if that gives you what you want.

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