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cepasqua
Jul 24, 2019Copper Contributor
Opening files and having changes being saved
I have a question about an experience a team member had where she opened an excel docs, made changes and then it didn't save them in teams, but gave her the option to save as. I'm trying to figure ou...
Dean_Gross
Jul 24, 2019Silver Contributor
cepasqua are you using the default SPO document library for the files, or one of the 3rd party stored like Box?
In general, it does not matter how you open the file, edits will be saved automatically and new file versions generated every few minutes.
- cepasquaJul 24, 2019Copper Contributor
The files are all in our Microsoft teams channel. Dean_Gross
So are you saying that no matter how you open it changes should be saved in the original document?
- Dean_GrossJul 25, 2019Silver Contributor
cepasqua Files are not actually stored in Teams, they are stored in another system, typically SharePoint, but it can also be an external system like Box. The Files tab in each channel is pointing to these other systems, in most cases it is pointing to a folder in SharePoint online that has the same name as the Channel and which is created in the default document library in the SPO site that was created automatically when the Team was created.
Yes that is what I'm saying, for files that are stored in the default location (the SPO folder for each channel) the file does not care how it was opened. The Office Web Apps and the Office client apps will all save the file automatically as it is being edited and no new file will be created (unless the file was manually Checked Out by another user- and in this case a warning message will be displayed)
- cepasquaJul 25, 2019Copper Contributor
Thank you very much for the clarificationDean_Gross