I have an Excel spreadsheet that lives on a shared folder, that everybody can access. On that spreadsheet, I have a worksheet with a list of tasks that have to be completed, but not necessarily by the same person and certainly not at the same time (it takes about 2 weeks to complete all the tasks on that list).
I would like each person to sign off each task on the spreadsheet after it's done so that we have a record of who did what and when. I have tried using the digital signature feature provided by Microsoft as detailed in https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-or-remove-a-digital-signature-in-office-files-70d26dc9-be10-46f1-8efa-719c8b3f1a2d, the only problem is that it appears to be designed to be used only once per document.
Even though I am able to add multiple signature lines to the same spreadsheet, once one is signed, I get the following message:
If I choose "Edit Anyway", the first signature disappears, even if I choose the level of commitment to "none", which kind of defeats the purpose of having multiple signatures. The whole point is that the spreadsheet keeps being edited with more and more data added as the tasks are being completed and I just need a form of signature of who completed which task when, while being able to keep editing the spreadsheet in the meantime.
Can anybody recommend an alternative solution of a way to make the Microsoft digital signatures work for that use case? I have done quite a bit of searching and it looks like even though many people have reported the same issue, there is no solution offered.