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Allow a site owner to kick a user out of a file opened in Excel Online

If you have multiple people co-authoring in Excel Online, there are times when you need to open the file in Excel - typically for advanced formatting, etc. If someone has accidentally left the file open in their browser, there is no way to force them out and keeps the file locked. Although not always intentional, it can create a major headache by not being able to simply kick/close out that particular user from editing.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Must have! It is so annoying to have to ask users to log off. Sometimes they're not available and we have to wait a while.

  • Brett commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be good. Either let File Creator have control of inactive users, and/or User with Admin rights.

  • Don commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Excel is one file type where we see this a lot but it would be good to be able to perform this function on any file type.

  • dan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Still after this.. at least something that maybe after a period of inactivity it gives you the option to disconnect?

  • Matt Mitchell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, this is really needed. Please make it happen. Right click on inactive user to boot them out...

  • Casper Levorsen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When using sharepoint sites between 100 of users, this would be amazing when making large changes to documents. So you don´t have to send out a mail to everyone to close it, or run around to production PC´s closing the sites just to come back to ones laptop and find out someone has opened it again.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    And if you have a protected sheet there's just no way to make changes while the file is left open in some background tab in user's browser.

    Why not allow just kick them, it's not that they CAN lose their changes as those apply immediately.

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