Working on the same Excel10 file from 2 networked PCs Win7 & Win 8.1 - Syncing / Saving problems

I want to be able to make changes to an Excel 10 file that resides in a laptop (Win7 OS) in a folder shared with a desktop (Win 8.1 OS). If the file is open in the laptop and I am trying to open to work on it from the desktop I get the message that the file
is locked since it is in use by another user and if I want to open as a local "read only" file. This means that any changes to it will not be reflected to the "mother" file residing in the laptop.
I can close the file (close Excel 10) in the laptop then I can access and change the file in the desktop but when it comes to saving it, I get the message that "the file may have been changed by another user and can only be saved as a copy file
or overwrite the original". Clearly neither of these 2 choices is acceptable since saving as a copy file results in a file that does not incorporate the changes done in the laptop (mother file), if a overwrite then all the changes done in the laptop are
lost!
Is there a way out of this? In Win XP there were the "briefcase" folders to do this but these are not available in Win 7 or 8.
I can see a "shared folder synchronisation" but I am not sure exactly what this does and whether it will do what I want.
I do NOT want to use "sky drives" because of security issues. I could consider using the Sharepoint Workspace, assuming that it uses heave encryption techniques.
Can anyone help?
SpaceBaz

Hi,
Briefcase still exists in Windows 7 system. Please see link below
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/sync-using-briefcase#1TC=windows-7
Regarding to the error message "the file may have been changed by another user and can only be saved as a copy file or overwrite the original". Either save a copy or overwrite changes, you can see description in the link below
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/324491/
For “if a overwrite then all the changes done in the laptop are lost!”, for example, the first person has made changes to the excel on the shared folder, then he close the file, and then the second person made changes on the same excel in another
computer, the two changes should all be done to the files, but if the two persons made a same change to the excel, then absolutely, second one will overwrite the first one.
Regards.
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