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> Now it looks like office 365 is going to be the cloud editing future for word / excel type needs You are in for a surprise. Office 365 (at least Excel and Wo
by haolez 6y ago
> Now it looks like office 365 is going to be the cloud editing future for word / excel type needs
You are in for a surprise. Office 365 (at least Excel and Word) looks like a toy compared to the desktop versions. I'm not talking about niche features or VBA, I'm talking about things like naming a table, which is explicitly only supported in the desktop version. Ah, of course! You need the table's name to use it in their Power Automate platform. Microsoft 365 is a mess right now. I hope it improves.
- olcor 6y agoI’m confused. Doesn’t Microsoft 365 include the desktop versions of the product and the ability to update them?
- D13Fd 6y agoAnd yet, for the typical office user, it supports most or all of the stuff they are going to do. It's also fast, reliable, it renders Office files correctly, and the UI matches what people are familiar with. All told, it's pretty good.
- haolez 6y agoI'm not sure if the typical office user is the same as the casual office user.
- Cactus2018 6y ago>You are in for a surprise. Here's another Office 365 Web surprise. Last week we had 5 team members working in a shared Word document with track-changes; A) There is no "view final markup" option, and B) after a while the web-app crawled to a halt.
- haolez 6y agoWe've had some bugs with loss of recent modifications to some spreadsheets when several users modify it collaboratively (Google Sheets-style). It sucks, unfortunately.
- gamblor956 6y agoIf you need power features, you should be using the desktop version... The web version is intended for basic/common use cases, not power user functions.
- haolez 6y agoExcept that Microsoft's discourse states otherwise to its business customers :)
- solvorn 6y agoDuck.