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Sharepoint is killing productivity. It's so sad that Microsoft does not see how they ruin productivity of big orgs. Sharepoint broke Excel - you cannot link b

by rvba 3y ago

Sharepoint is killing productivity. It's so sad that Microsoft does not see how they ruin productivity of big orgs. Sharepoint broke Excel - you cannot link between shared documents easily. They even broke the windows taskbar, which automatically combines things together. They assume that people working in an office have only 1 email open and 1 spreadsheet open, while most have 20 and dont know how to turn off this shitty UI.

tyfon 3y ago
> Sharepoint broke Excel - you cannot link between shared documents easily. I actually found a way where I work now, I made a shortcut to the sharepoint folder from teams that appear in the file explorer, I can then link the document. Of course this only works for me and not if I share the file. Can't wait for the merge of the desktop and web excel to finally break it all... I also overwrote an important document today because the idiotic auto save was turned on, I used the document as a template for a new one without checking. Luckily I had a copy of the important one in my Documents folder on the local computer which they recommend you not to do since you might have data loss! Yes, I hate office 365...
- rvba 3y ago
  The thing is that the documents are shared out by default and it simply craps out when you have flows like: Source1 + source2 -> summary report -> consolidated report (With like 20 source files)
scohesc 3y ago
They've finally conceded and re-implemented the original task bar method of "let's actually label the icons in your taskbar so you have some idea of what you're actually clicking on before you click it". You have to re-enable it in taskbar settings, but it's FINALLY there to be enabled again. I use a program called StartIsBack to try and return to a more "classic" shell experience, but Windows has done such a good job at tying so much to their shell that from what I hear it's close to impossible to do certain things anymore.

by rvba 3y ago

tyfon 3y ago

> Sharepoint broke Excel - you cannot link between shared documents easily. I actually found a way where I work now, I made a shortcut to the sharepoint folder from teams that appear in the file explorer, I can then link the document. Of course this only works for me and not if I share the file. Can't wait for the merge of the desktop and web excel to finally break it all... I also overwrote an important document today because the idiotic auto save was turned on, I used the document as a template for a new one without checking. Luckily I had a copy of the important one in my Documents folder on the local computer which they recommend you not to do since you might have data loss! Yes, I hate office 365...

rvba 3y ago
The thing is that the documents are shared out by default and it simply craps out when you have flows like: Source1 + source2 -> summary report -> consolidated report (With like 20 source files)

scohesc 3y ago

They've finally conceded and re-implemented the original task bar method of "let's actually label the icons in your taskbar so you have some idea of what you're actually clicking on before you click it". You have to re-enable it in taskbar settings, but it's FINALLY there to be enabled again. I use a program called StartIsBack to try and return to a more "classic" shell experience, but Windows has done such a good job at tying so much to their shell that from what I hear it's close to impossible to do certain things anymore.