18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise releasing the lock in response to a different user attempting to edit the electronic document and a time period having expired since there has been activity by the user to the electronic document.
15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: providing an electronic document to a device of a user of a plurality of users that have edit access to the electronic document as part of a collaborative editing of the electronic document; receiving a lock command from the device of the user to prevent edit access by other users of the plurality of users that have edit access to the electronic document; and transmitting the lock command to devices of the other users of the plurality of users.