It's worth noting if you need to collaborate on a document with multiple users, the collaboration features will always override the lock, allowing multiple users concurrent access.
The programs can be used by several people at different computers to collaborate on a document.
Teachers can supervise your writing, buddies can collaborate on a document, friends can play you in Connect 4, or someone across the room can add a melody to your drum beat in the music program.
This means that co-workers can collaborate on a document in real-time.
When that happens, a Word user will be able to collaborate on a document real-time with a Zoho Writer user, for example, over the Internet.
If I do need to collaborate on a document, I do it in an online editor that is also a publishing system (WordPress).
To collaborate on a document in WordPress, you have to share a draft link with a friend and also create an account for that person.
In your personal life you may not need to collaborate on a document with lots of people very regularly, but in the workplace that is a thing you might do multiple times a day.
Still, the ability to import and collaborate on a document, and then publish it to the web or take it back to the desktop, is a powerful feature not available to Microsoft Office users outside of Office Live or Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server.
If you've ever tried to collaborate on a document (or any kind of note, really) with coworkers or anyone else, you're probably using something along the lines of Dropbox Paper or Google Docs — but they don't quite have the same team-focused simplicity as, say, Slack, if you ask Christophe Pasquier.
