Locks Office Documents For Exclusive Editing

Your users may prefer working with Office documents in an exclusive mode, that is, only the user that first opened the document has exclusive editing rights over the document. If another user opens the document, it will open for read-only. This is the default behaviour when working with Office documents on a network file server.

When starting a new Zee Drive subscription, exclusive editing is the default behaviour when opening Office documents from your Zee Drive network drives.

On opening a document in Office, Zee Drive acquires a SharePoint lock on the document preventing other users from opening the document for editing.

When opening an Office document from a Zee Drive mapped network drive, if the document is already locked for editing, Office informs the user and offers an option to open the document for reading

Zee Drive maintains the lock on the document for the duration the document is opened from Zee Drive. On closing the document, the lock is released, allowing another user to open the document for editing.

The specific Office applications supported are Excel, Word, and PowerPoint and the document types .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .ppt, and .pptx

Zee Drive supports an alternative option for opening Office documents; open for co-authoring. When opened for co-authoring, advanced Office features are available such as collaborative editing and AutoSave.