Excel synced on multiple PCs

garv123

Not sure is there a better forum for this.

Basically I'm looking to see is there a way or something similar to excel that you can update and use on multiple pcs, without creating conflicting saves I'd the file is open on more than one Pc.
At work we use drop box to share files between multiple pcs which works fine for CAD.

So at the minute we send files to the Cnc machines to be cut out. We need to let the machinest know material, names,priority etc. We send the file and write down the info and write it up on a list that's printed off on excel.

We want to see can we do this digitally now.
It needs to be possible to update and make changes whilst open on other PCs, because the machinist must cross off what's cut out too.

Anything out there that works online even?

Hope that makes sense

gctest50

excel online maybe ?

https://office.live.com/start/Excel.aspx?ui=en-US

google spreadsheets :

https://apps.google.com/intx/en_uk/products/sheets/index.html

loads of other ways though

mahoganygas

Save as a shared workbook?

It won't be live updating, but every time somebody hits save then everybody else can see those updates by hitting save themselves.

zarquon

A sharepoint would be the proper way to do this. Googles docs would be a quick and dirty to do it if you need excel bells and whistles

Robert ninja

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/

You can do collaborative work on spreadsheets, thanks to Calc's multiple-user support. You can share a spreadsheet, so that other users can easily add their data to it. The spreadsheet owner can then easily integrate the new data, in just a few clicks. This collaboration feature helps avoid editing conflicts.

You can expand the functionality of LibreOffice even further with extensions available for download from our LibreOffice Extension Center. Extensions are software plug-ins that you install as extras to the standard LibreOffice download, and that add some kind of additional functionality to the suite, either to one particular application (Writer, Calc, Impress, ...), or to every one of the applications.

and

http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html

Multiple users support - Encourage collaborative work on spreadsheets. By sharing a spreadsheet, other users can easily add their data to the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet owner can then easily integrate the new data with a few clicks. This collaboration feature helps avoid editing conflicts.

Hope that helps.

garv123

Thanks, google spreadsheets looks like it might work.

We'l try it out

BailMeOut

sharepoint online will do this.