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Charles Haber
Nov 18, 2016Brass Contributor
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 ...
- Nov 07, 2017
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
Oct 06, 2017
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.
Angus Hamilton
Oct 12, 2017Brass Contributor
Interesting - the only way I get groups to appear in the list is to have typed the URL in there at least once. (e.g. mytenant.sharepoint.com/groupname/documents).
That's the bit my users struggle with - they really need a simple list of groups such as you get in Outlook when saving to a group (if only you could save to a sub-folder, but that's another story!!).