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Blake T Walsh
Jul 31, 2018Former Employee
Excel Community: Simplifying Spaces and Labels
Hi all,
As you may have noticed already, we as the Excel Team have done a bit of "spring/summer cleaning" for the community. We have received feedback that the number of "spaces" was simply too many at nine, so we have pared things down.
Now, there are three community spaces:
- Excel: this will be the primary place for posting content, as many of the old spaces have been migrated as labels will find a good home here
- BI and Data Analysis: this will be a good place for posting about tasks and questions that cut across Excel, Power BI, and other topics in this realm
- Resources and Community: this will increasingly become a place for folks to share sample files and templates with each other
Q: What happened to the other spaces that used to exist?
A: They have since been rolled up as "Labels", which you can find in the "More Resources" sidebar under "Labels" of any of the three spaces mentioned above. Look for these on the right side:
Labels in the "More Resources" box on the right side of any space shows the other spaces that used to be off on their own
Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks for reading!
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- Anonymoushi all am less than 2 hours old on the platform, a green horn eager to learn... nice to be here
- Damien_RosarioSilver Contributor
Welcome Deleted!
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- Arul TresoldiIron ContributorNow people looking for help for a specific problem will post in the "Excel" forum, which is full of billions of other genres of topics... I am (and will be) a bit confused.
- Blake T WalshFormer Employee
Hi Arul Tresoldi - as mentioned in the original post, that's what the tags and labels are designed to help out with!
- Arul TresoldiIron Contributor
Yeah, I understood.
What I'm saying is that users that come here just for 1 question may ignore labels (that are optional); when there were lots of spaces, they were "obliged" to look for the most accurate for their problem. Now they just post it in "Excel", eventually ignoring tags, and that's how to mess up something that was working...
edit: Consider how many users are using the feature that considers a problem solved ("best reply" feature, if I'm not mistaken); how many of them are 1 time users? This shows how the features of this board (best reply OR labels, whatever) are user-friendly.
- Damien_RosarioSilver ContributorThis explains why one day I logged in and things were missing. Figured you guys did this to streamline the forums. Good stuff!
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EricStarker, do you know why notification about your post appeared in my feed right now even if you posted couple of days ago?
- EricStarkerFormer Employee
SergeiBaklan: I moved the post today, but I left a placeholder, so the placeholder is still dated Friday, the date of the original message that got moved. I also responded today.
- AnonymousHello, give me error "There are one or more circular references where a formula refers to its own cell either directly or indirectly. This might cause them to calculate incorrectly. Try removing or changing these references, or moving the formulas to different cells." and after accepting the contents of the file does not open. Please help me with this.
Deleted, that is separate topic and you have more chances to receive an answer if start new conversation with it in Excel space.
- Anonymous
Excuse me SergeiBaklan Thanks for the Suggestion
Regards
- Matt MickleBronze Contributor
Hey Blake-
I hope all is well. I noticed this change yesterday. It's nice to have a more concise number of spaces and I think this is a positive change, however I also noticed that in the process of spring cleaning you have killed a large number of content links, rendering them useless. Is there any plan to reinstate these links or are they just a casualty? This is very frustrating for community members that need to track content views.
Here are some dead links for reference:
- Allen
Community Manager
Hi Matt Mickle
Sorry that was a mistake on my behalf. I have fixed it now and those links are now working correctly.
Apologies.
- Matt MickleBronze Contributor
Thanks for the quick fix. Appreciate it!
Two years have passed... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel/Excel-Spaces-categorization/m-p/7807
- Haytham AmairahSilver Contributor
It's better now!