At the company I work for, they have a Windows server that our customer files are stored on. One of these files, an Excel file, we use to log the production work for the day, so it is constantly being opened, updated, saved and closed.
The issue is, on the Mac side, is that they do not get the "file is in use" notification when opening the Excel file that gives you the option of read-only, notify me, or canceling. In most cases, it will just open the file as a read-only. However, this is not really helpful as when it gets busy, most people are not going to look at the menu bar of the file to see it says "Read-Only" at the top.
Does anyone know how I can get this to work? I don't know if it's because we are in a cross-platform environment (PC and Mac) or if it's a known setting, or issue, with Excel on the Mac side.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.
Thanks.
The issue is, on the Mac side, is that they do not get the "file is in use" notification when opening the Excel file that gives you the option of read-only, notify me, or canceling. In most cases, it will just open the file as a read-only. However, this is not really helpful as when it gets busy, most people are not going to look at the menu bar of the file to see it says "Read-Only" at the top.
Does anyone know how I can get this to work? I don't know if it's because we are in a cross-platform environment (PC and Mac) or if it's a known setting, or issue, with Excel on the Mac side.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.
Thanks.