Working together with colleagues in the browser and the program

Are you working in the Nextcloud Office program while your colleague works in the browser? Then you can both work in the same document at the same time, just like two colleagues who are both working in the browser. Condition: you open the document from your connected Nextcloud in the program (see Linking the program to your WebOké Nextcloud).

How it works

1. In Nextcloud Office, open your Nextcloud on the left under Connected clouds.
2. Open the shared document. Your colleague opens the same document in the browser.
3. You'll see each other's cursor and changes. Comments, mentions, tracked changes and the chat work as described in chapter 8. See Working on a document at the same time and Fast or Strict: the two co-editing modes.

A colleague who doesn't have access to the file can't work along. Share the file first, see Sharing a document with a colleague.

Files on your own computer

If you open a file stored on your own computer (with Open local file or by double-clicking it in your Explorer or Finder), you're working alone. Nobody sees your changes until you save the file and it's uploaded to your Nextcloud.

This also applies to files in the folder of the Nextcloud Files sync app (Working with the Nextcloud desktop app (synchronisation)). The app only puts the file in your Nextcloud after you save it. If a colleague is working on the same file in the browser in the meantime, a conflict arises: two versions side by side.

Please note: always work on a shared file that colleagues are also working on through the browser or through your connected Nextcloud in the program, not through the sync folder. This prevents duplicate versions. Did it happen anyway? In Version History: restoring an older version you can read how to restore an older version.