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Charles Haber
Brass Contributor
Nov 18, 2016

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 ...
  • Patrick_Gan's avatar
    Patrick_Gan
    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


     

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