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Pinning folders in Excel 2016 / Office 365
We are having the same issue. I am trying to roll out outlook groups but cant give my users a consistent way of accessing the excel files in the library. Pinning works for some users and not for others apparently on the same version. It worked for me yesterday but today I can ping locations I visited yesterday and earlier but not the new groups I created today ? very frustrating, I have spent ages trying to convince users to move away from file server shares and issues such as this really don't help. you mention quick access ? we are on windows 7 , is this a windows 10 thing ?
Also, if you can't pin group file locations in excel , how can you, 'save as', a file in a new group ?
Richard Theakston wrote:We are having the same issue. I am trying to roll out outlook groups but cant give my users a consistent way of accessing the excel files in the library. Pinning works for some users and not for others apparently on the same version. It worked for me yesterday but today I can ping locations I visited yesterday and earlier but not the new groups I created today ? very frustrating, I have spent ages trying to convince users to move away from file server shares and issues such as this really don't help. you mention quick access ? we are on windows 7 , is this a windows 10 thing ?
Hi Richard,
I wish I had better answers to this! Hopefully someone else does or there is an improvement on the way.
I still don't really understand where the different Office client teams are going with Pinning. I had read it was being phased out, and some users can, some can't do it. However, a recent addition was a 'Recent' tab in Excel and I can still pin and unpin recent folders/locations in that tab. Whether pinning is here to stay I don't know. For now we are relying on Quick Access shortcuts, which is Windows 10, but I believe to be the same essentially as Network Locations in Windows 7. We too were looking forward to getting rid of these when we migrated to 365 so now having to use Quick Access was really annoying, for the same reasons network locations were annoying - encourages users to just use SPO as a file share.
As for Groups, we're not really using them much at the moment apart from as Distribution Lists (with the benefit that themed conversations are stored, and not lost to inboxes forever). My understanding is that each group is created in it's own Site Collection. And so I think that means that each Group would have to be added seperately as a new Network Location (or in my case Quick Access shortcut). Otherwise it's a case of File Upload which I imagine is about as popular in your workplace as it is in mine.
As I said, hopefully someone with a bigger brain than mine can provide better solutions to this than I have managed to do.
Paul
Thanks for this Paul, yes it's very frustrating, I will investigate Network locations and see if that can help us in the short term.
Paul Chapman wrote:Hi Richard,
I wish I had better answers to this! Hopefully someone else does or there is an improvement on the way.
I still don't really understand where the different Office client teams are going with Pinning. I had read it was being phased out, and some users can, some can't do it. However, a recent addition was a 'Recent' tab in Excel and I can still pin and unpin recent folders/locations in that tab. Whether pinning is here to stay I don't know. For now we are relying on Quick Access shortcuts, which is Windows 10, but I believe to be the same essentially as Network Locations in Windows 7. We too were looking forward to getting rid of these when we migrated to 365 so now having to use Quick Access was really annoying, for the same reasons network locations were annoying - encourages users to just use SPO as a file share.
As for Groups, we're not really using them much at the moment apart from as Distribution Lists (with the benefit that themed conversations are stored, and not lost to inboxes forever). My understanding is that each group is created in it's own Site Collection. And so I think that means that each Group would have to be added seperately as a new Network Location (or in my case Quick Access shortcut). Otherwise it's a case of File Upload which I imagine is about as popular in your workplace as it is in mine.
As I said, hopefully someone with a bigger brain than mine can provide better solutions to this than I have managed to do.
Paul
