When a user successfully saves a shared spreadsheet, the document will be reloaded after the save command, so that the spreadsheet shows the latest version of all changes that got saved by all users. User A can choose to cancel the save command for now, or retry saving some time later. User A sees a message that a merge-in is in progress. While user A resolves the conflicts, no other user is able to save the shared document.Īnother user tries to save the shared document and resolves conflicts in this moment. When all conflicts are resolved, the document is saved. User A must decide for the conflicts which version to keep, 'Keep Mine' or 'Keep Other'. If the changes conflict, the Resolve Conflicts dialog will be shown. If the changes do not conflict, the document is saved. The document was modified and saved by another user since user A opened the document. The document was not modified and saved by another user since user A opened the document. After clicking OK, the document is opened in shared mode. The user can disable this message for the future. The user sees a message that the document is in shared mode and that some features are not available in this mode. The spreadsheet document is in shared mode. The user can open, edit, and save the document as described above for Writer, Impress, and Draw documents. The spreadsheet document is not in shared mode. This creates a copy of the spreadsheet that is not shared. If you want to use a shared document in unshared mode, you would save the shared document using another name or path. The Tools - Share Document command can be used to switch the mode for the current document from unshared mode to shared mode. If the user enables sharing, the document will be saved in shared mode, which is also shown on the title bar. A dialog opens where the user can choose to enable or disable sharing.

The user chooses Tools - Share Document to activate the collaboration features for this document. The user wants to share the document for collaboration. User A opens, edits, and saves the document as described above for Writer, Impress, and Draw document.

The user does not want to share the spreadsheet for collaboration. User A creates a new spreadsheet document.

For a new spreadsheet you cannot apply or insert the grayed out elements. Some commands are not available (grayed out) when change tracking or document sharing is activated.

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