About co-editing in spreadsheets

You can use HCL Connections™ Docs to simultaneously edit a spreadsheet together with others in the cloud. It can greatly improve the simplicity and efficiency to build spreadsheets.

When creating a spreadsheet, sometimes you need input or information from coworkers or friends, and you have to edit the spreadsheet together. In traditional office productivity applications, you have to save your spreadsheet on your computer hard disk, and then send it to coworkers by email or exchange a USB flash drive. Moreover, they must install desktop clients, such as OpenOffice or Microsoft™ Office on their computers. While they edit the spreadsheet, you cannot see their changes until they send the spreadsheet back to you. Much time is wasted in emailing attachments back and forth. Now co-editing can help you solve this issue. As long as there is Internet access, every one can edit the spreadsheet at the same time and you can see their changes immediately. The only requirement is that you have shared the file with them and set their access to the file as editors.

HCL Docs supports user profiles and user scenarios that do not need all the power of a rich client. With HCL Docs, you can work in highly collaborative ways on more dynamic, informal documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

In co-editing, you can edit in different cells or in the same cell, column, or row. You can easily tell who is in the co-editing mode by checking the editors' photos in the sidebar. Changes from different editors are highlighted in different colors, and HCL Docs saves the changes instantly and automatically. When you finish your co-editing work, a default auto-publishing makes updates available to readers as soon as the last editor closes the file. All editors can also publish manually at any time.