co-authoring between editing word document content and editing word document property

Question

Inside our online document library, 2 users can edit the word document content at the same time using the co-authoring feature. but if someone is modifying a word document content and another user tried to modify the word document properties the user will get this error:-

so my question is if we can allow co-authoring between a user who is editing the word document content and another user who is editing the word document properties?

Answer 1

Hi @john john

It seems to be a by-design behavior.

Co-authoring only applies to users co-editing document content. When a user is editing the content of a document, other users cannot change the document properties.

Other users can only wait for the completion of the document modification.

If you need more information, you can go to user voice and post about it.

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