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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Currently, it's possible for two users to edit an office attachment (Excel, Word files) and save over each other's work. The work is versioned, but there isn't a warning like that which appears when a second user edits the same page within Confluence.
This is a request to add a warning within the "Edit in Word" (or comparable) edit functions of the Office Connector, and not a duplicate of the underlying issue.
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[CONFCLOUD-17104] Warn users when editing the same attachments with the Office Connector
Same here! This feature is a must-have, please please add this!
Concurrent editing is not needed; we just need users to know when someone else has opened a document (Excel) but hasn't saved it back to the page.
We have same kind of issue in my company (7500 active licences)
This feature is a must-have.
We really need this as we have multiple users that update complicated rosters in Excel that are attached to the page. Probably another issue but we are getting an error when using the Office Connector to do with Basic Authentication and SSL. Yet to work that one out but having warnings when editing the same attachment would be great.
Raphy Thomas
added a comment - Two people or more can today edit a confluence page and save it and both their work will be saved without any losses or conflicts. Can´t you come up with a solution for it with attachments and macros ?
Thanks.
Raphy Thomas
added a comment - Two people or more can today edit a confluence page and save it and both their work will be saved without any losses or conflicts. Can´t you come up with a solution for it with attachments and macros ?
Thanks. 
Alice
added a comment - @Mark absolutely - I vote for both concurrent edit abilities AND also ability to show if someone already has the attachment open.
The latter would be my preference to happen first since it's most detrimental to our workflow.
Alice
added a comment - @Mark absolutely - I vote for both concurrent edit abilities AND also ability to show if someone already has the attachment open.
The latter would be my preference to happen first since it's most detrimental to our workflow. 
Mark Garcia
added a comment - @ Alice - concurrent edit would be a nice to have.... Alice
added a comment - I have the same comment as @John Price. We don't need the ability to concurrently edit, just a warning or pop-up (as would normally appear if opening the document on a desktop) that says someone else has it open.
Alice
added a comment - I have the same comment as @John Price. We don't need the ability to concurrently edit, just a warning or pop-up (as would normally appear if opening the document on a desktop) that says someone else has it open. We would like this as well. This would prevent to users from overwriting each other's word/excel documents.
John Price
added a comment - We need this as well. Concurrent editing is not needed; we just need users to know when someone else has opened a document (Excel) but hasn't saved it back to the page.
John Price
added a comment - We need this as well. Concurrent editing is not needed; we just need users to know when someone else has opened a document (Excel) but hasn't saved it back to the page. 
Doods Perea
added a comment - This is a critical issue for our high profile client group. Does Atlassian have a roadmap for addressing this request?
Doods Perea
added a comment - This is a critical issue for our high profile client group. Does Atlassian have a roadmap for addressing this request? 
David Goldstein
added a comment - @Paul- If you're not already aware of it, our Arsenale Lockpoint Confluence plugin directly addresses this issue, allowing controlled check-out and check-in of attachments. It's seemlessly integrated with the MS Office Connector plugin for Confluence (as well as Gliffy & Balsamiq Mockups). So sounds like it would do a good job for your team's environment.
Our plugin is completely free for 10, 25 and 50-user Confluence licenses; it does cost money for larger installations. All the details are on the Plugin Exchange page – https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/36199 – and you can download it from there or directly within Confluence from the Plugins->Install admin page.
David Goldstein
added a comment - @Paul- If you're not already aware of it, our Arsenale Lockpoint Confluence plugin directly addresses this issue, allowing controlled check-out and check-in of attachments. It's seemlessly integrated with the MS Office Connector plugin for Confluence (as well as Gliffy & Balsamiq Mockups). So sounds like it would do a good job for your team's environment.
Our plugin is completely free for 10, 25 and 50-user Confluence licenses; it does cost money for larger installations. All the details are on the Plugin Exchange page – https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/36199 – and you can download it from there or directly within Confluence from the Plugins->Install admin page. 
Paul Hassall
added a comment - Hi there We are using Confluence and Excel to display status of Hospitals in our Ambulance Control Room. (See attached) Whilst not mission critical this bug is causing us some issues as we need multiple staff to be able to update the data, often not in the same room, so over-writing is a significant problem.
Paul Hassall
added a comment - Hi there We are using Confluence and Excel to display status of Hospitals in our Ambulance Control Room. (See attached) Whilst not mission critical this bug is causing us some issues as we need multiple staff to be able to update the data, often not in the same room, so over-writing is a significant problem.
Confluence needs real-time collaboration on attachments just like as if they were on Dropbox or SharePoint. Users get real time feedback on other users changes and merges them to a new version. Also users are warned that other users are editing the same file.