Opening already opened Microsoft Office Documents in Mavericks

[daveyus]

Hi,

We are currently working with both Apple and Microsoft products and the problem we're experiencing is when a document is opened in Windows it cannot open in OSX.

It just simply says that the document cannot be opened.

What i previously heard is that you could change settings in for example, an office document for automatically backing up your document. After searching for answers i'm still lost.

Is there anything i can do on OSX side?

 

[chabig]

Did you leave out some information? Is my guess correct that you're talking about Macs and Windows machines on a network where the documents in question are stored on a central server? If so, then I think it's normal that only one person can have the file open at a time.

 

[daveyus]

All files are stored on a single server, but opened files in OSX can also be opened from a Windows Client. It's just that when a file is opened in Windows you literally can't do anything to change or read it. Reading is enough and in Windows that's possible. Just not on OSX.

 

[chabig]

It's probably running on a Microsoft server and there is some feature that OS X doesn't support.

 

[satcomer]

Once you look at the server file do a Get Info on the file and change the permissions so everyone can read and write the file.

 

[daveyus]

But does that "Get Info" Solution automatically sets it as a standard for all documents? And when trying that it gives me the report i don't have permissions to do that.

I'll try to work this solution out in Windows.