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Saving to Groups from Office Desktop Applications
So Microsoft Teams led me to discover Office 365 Groups. The biggest failing, for me is the apparent inability to start a document in Word or Excel and then SaveAs to the Group's file store (unless ...
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
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.Hi
Thanks for the reply - however, the issue is that the Sites section in Office apps doesn't show/easily allow navigation to Office 365 group sites (unless I'm missing something). The only thing I see in Sites is our main SharePoint site, and any sites I've previously saved to.
So if I want to save to a new Office 365 Group site, I need to type in https://mydomain.sharepoint.com/sites/groupsitename and then navigate from there? This isn't very user friendly for 'ordinary' users - it would be much more preferable to have a list of groups to choose from (a little like the Outlook functionality for saving attachments)
- I get groups show up in that list, but yes its based on sites you use regularly rather than those which you are aa member.
