Challenge:

In my company, we have a network drive that many people have access too.

In a particular folder lies a word document, which is a management report. 6 people have access to this file and update this one file.

My company uses office 365



Issue is, if someone is using the file, another person may try to open it to make their changes, but the previous persons changes are lost.

Required Solution:

We need a way so anyone can open this same file, At the Same time, make their own changes, and when they save the file, the other persons changes are Not lost.

There could be 6 people working on the same file concurrently in different sections of the document. If one of the six people who save their file, I dont want the other peoples work to be lost, just because they did not save their work. When they save their work, then the person who save their work before, their changes should still be present.

Can experts here provide some of the best options for me to consider to eliminate this version control issue that we are having.

We dont want to loose other peoples work, at the same time it would be valuable to have multiple people working on the same document at the same time.

If there is a way to also see who saved their work last, that would be great to have as well, so we know who out of the 6 people have worked on the document and who is still pending.

We look forward to your solutions

Tyrese