Collaboration with OneDrive/Office 2016

[CSMR]

I am wondering what is the best way to share documents and edit simultaneously with Office 2016.

I have a team using a shared OneDrive folder. We each have OneDrive synchronizing to a local folder on a computer, and Office 2016 installed.

When someones opens an Office file in shared OneDrive folder on his computer, that causes the file to be "locked for editing", so that others opening the same file have read-only access. We have tried this with PowerPoint and Excel.

What we want is to be able to edit at the same time and see others' edits.

Do we still need to share the file from the sharing tab, even though we all have access to it already by sharing the OneDrive folder the file is in?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[quikah]

AFAIK, you need to press the share button to get this to work. I haven't actually used it, but from playing with it a bit, it looks like you need to open it from the cloud rather than the sync'd folder, then you can press the share button and invite others.

When I open a file from my sync'd folder and press the share button it says to save it in the cloud. When I do File > Open and choose my onedrive then the file I can click the share button.

 

[CSMR]

I got it working with this advice, thanks! I found that in addition to opening from the network address via File -> Open -> Onedrive within the Office app, one person has to
click on the share tab to tell the app to update continuously when sharing.