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Saving to Groups from Office Desktop Applications
Angus,
Appreciate the feedback and keep it coming!
The experience you are seeing is what will likely be in the first release.
To each of your points:
1) We are looking into different ways of making this list a bit easier to manage for future releases. The ability to remove a Group from the list is one of them, as well as supporting ways to filter the list.
2) I'll need to follow up on the ordering of the followed list. I believe it is ordered by when you followed the site on the SharePoint experience...
3) The ability to 'pin' a group is also something we are looking at for future releases. We already support a way to do this within the Office apps (you can pin a specific location to the Save As experience) but I think you are asking for something that appears wherever you access a Group (whether it be Outlook, SharePoint or Office) - correct?
Thanks!
Patrick
Angus Hamilton wrote:
Hi
Thanks very much for the clear update - much appreciated.
I'm on Office Insider, so am I right in thinking the experience I am seeing (with Frequent and Following) is what will make it into first release?
Couple of thoughts if that's OK...
1. Frequent is a bit messy and long in my case (35 sites), and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove entries?
2. Could/should following be in alphabetical order?
3. Could there be a favourites/pin facility, as in standard folders?
This is definitely getting there - I can just see it being a bit overwhelming for users as the frequent list fills up, and you can't see the more refined 'following' list without scrolling down...
Thanks
Angus
Any new updates on this?
Microsoft- Patrick_Gan
Hello,
I wanted to tack onto Christophe's original post about the Groups integration feature within the Office apps (Word, PowerPoint and Excel.) I'm a PM on the Office team (specifically working on this integration with Groups) and wanted to give everyone a brief update on where we are on the release.
We originally targeted releasing this integration (the ability to open from and save Office files to Groups) more broadly at the beginning of summer (May/June.) Thanks to some initial Insiders feedback, we adjusted the design to include groups that users have followed (as well as the ones that have been frequently used) and updated the file and location picking experience. Along the way, we found a number of issues that needed fixing before we exposed the feature more broadly.
At this point, we've restarted the roll out with the October fork of Office 365, starting with Insiders. Our goal is to get the experience enabled for everyone in the next month or so.
Let us know if you have questions and thank you for your patience as we roll out this feature!
Patrick
Any update on releasing this to the targeted channel? This seems like a major integration that is missing for end users to embrace Groups and Teams, and it has been a requested feature for a very long time.
- Patrick_Gan
Eric_H - as we just went to the monthly update channel recently, this would not reach the semi- annual channel until 2019, if that is what you mean by 'targeted' channel. Let me know though if I misunderstood your question....
Very good news. Thanks for the update.
We need a search / filter option on that list. We will have hundreds or thousands of groups.
Benoit
Thank you Finally someone responds who knows what they are talking about. the only documentation anywhere is the original roll out of May, nothing about anything feature being held back or any bugs about this since then. No wonder everyone keeps researching and led here desperately seeking answers to obvious shortcomings in a widely publicised badly pushed Teams feature. I don't see why this wasn't written into the code on day one as its such an obvious requirement. Teams should never have arrived without proper testing first by end users. Like the onedive/skydrive/onedrive buisness/win 10 onedrive saga Microsoft need to start employing people to point out the obvious before anything is released.
Its not good enough to be trying to train staff to use these new features when they aren't complete or keep changing. Onedrive has only recently accepted # in a file name. Seriously? How many years has it been alive now.
Patience shouldn't ever be needed, that's the problem right there. This requirement was obvious to any end user so how did they miss it at the Teams rollout.
Hi
I've come across a similar post (related to Teams, but the same issue) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Any-plans-to-save-directly-to-Teams-sites-in-Office-2016-apps/td-p/53198
This suggests something has been in and out of the first release version of Office.
Is there a definitive update on when this is coming? Given the recent Skype for Business -> Teams announcements I'd really like to adopt Teams, but our users can't save files easily to the teams/group file location so I can't recommend it.
I have the same issue not being able to save documents to a group, especially from non-microsoft apps.
- In Word/Excel/Ppt you can File ... Save As and choose from Sites (when you say save to groups, you mean save to a site associated with the group).
For non-Microsoft apps you'll need to sync the site to your machine.
Announced in April: "...Groups integration in Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Windows desktops is coming with this month’s Office 365 updates..."
we are almost in October and still nothing...
Hello Mr. Fiessinger,
are there any updates on this subject? We're also waiting for the feature, but it doesn't seem to be rolled out yet.
Can you confirm this by any chance?
Tanks and regards
Any update on this, Trying to get staff to move to groups but without this feature the system is compromised. Seriuosly waiting in earnest for this ability
Thank you, I found that link right after I posted. It's still an issue for me though. It looks like from the screenshot in the blog that it only shows "Frequented Sites". The groups I want to save to are not "Frequent Sites" and I don't know how to make them "Frequent". I am on the latest build (well, I should say I'm on "Current Channel" and it says I have the latest update.
