Change from Shared Workbook to Coauthoring

[joshking247]

Hi,

I have created a client manager in excel 2013 at work which uses the shared workbook feature. I need to use drop down lists so all the data validation needs to be set up before i share the workbook. If we make any mistakes we have to unshare the workbook, copy and paste the 'data validation only' so that all the correct columns have drop downs again.

It turns out some of us have office 2016 so coauthoring has replaced shared workbook. This means that they don't have the option to unshare, correct issues then reshare. I am considereing changing everyone to office 2016 and using 'coauthoring' instead but I don't know if the above process would work.

Can anyone let me know what the steps would be in coauthoring to fix any mistakes such as data validation?

Also, I could not find much online explaining the difference between these two features. Would anyone be able to explain the main differences?

Thanks!

 

[Fluff]

Duplicate https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel...-shared-workbook-coauthoring.html#post4999317

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