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Hey I am learning sharepoint and made a document library.

I got my users to open the document and edit it and work collaboratively and it all works great. What I want to do it to make it work more like google docs.

In google docs, the document is constantly being saved and people can read and see edits made by other people. This is very nice since you can tell that Mike is working on the conclusion so Jill doesn't need to worry about the conclusion and can just edit the paper while monitoring what mike is typing and helping him with spelling and grammar....

Is there an option built into word 2010 and sharepoint that allows this? currently Jill has to save to see that mike is working on the conclusion. Mike's work isn't published until he saves so jill has to sit there hitting save over and over hoping mike is done...

any help would be good, thank you

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I did a bunch of reading and found out that Microsoft deliberately did not include this feature... They have legit reasons for why they didn't but there is no way they can defend their way of doing things either. Ideally it would be nice if they gave the user the option of picking. Between the two ways of collaborating but I guess that's too much to ask.

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If you have a server-based setup it's best done with SharePoint. Even the free SharePoint Foundation which installs on Windows client or server is enough. Google it. Without SharePoint, you can use this cumbersome method.

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