Resolve Conflicts
Since lists can’t include formulas or objects, they are best suited to sharing two classes of information from Excel:
Results of calculated or summarized information
Detail information for summary or calculation on clients
In the first case, an author may collect information, generate some results, then share those results for review by others. Alternately, a list may consist of raw data with one or more authors contributing items. Those authors and additional users may read the list and summarize or filter the list in many different workbooks.
In a many-to-many relationship, more than one author may change a particular cell. When this occurs, the second author to synchronize her list sees the Resolve Conflicts and Errors dialog, shown in Figure 14-3.

Figure 14-3. When two authors change the same cell, the second author to synchronize must decide what to do
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