# Working with MS Office files

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/working-with-ms-office-files/1900>\
**Category:** Pydio 8\
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/working-with-ms-office-files/1900 "2018-11-29T16:29:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![fracture0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/fracture0/32/523_2.png) [@fracture0](https://forum.pydio.com/u/fracture0)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/working-with-ms-office-files/1900/1 "2018-11-29T16:29:25Z")

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Using Pydio v8

Hi,  
Like many of us, we are interested in making our Pydio Server a collaborative solutions. That means : being able to work on MS Office Document directly from a Pydio session.  
I know there’s collabora (and that’s cool) but we’re working with Excel power-users and I fear that it won’t be good enough for most of us.  
At the moment, the only solution I have is to map a Samba server on top of the document folder (internal use only).  
My questions :

- is the samba trick ok ? Have you seen this setup before ? Could this break something in Pydio ? Compatibility with Cells ?
- Should we do this the other way round ? Setup a samba server and add a Pydiosync agent on top of it ? Can it handle 1 millions files smoothly ?
- There’s also Webdav, but it doesn’t seem very convincing (slow, creds management, …)
- Any other option ?

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**Author:** ![c12simple](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/c12simple/32/90_2.png) [@c12simple](https://forum.pydio.com/u/c12simple)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/working-with-ms-office-files/1900/2 "2018-11-30T14:22:56Z")

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Hello,

- Mapping samba on top of document folder does not break anything in Pydio.
- Pydio sync is not good idea in case of 1 millions files workspace