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Excel Desktop vs Excel Online - online version should have all/most of the same features

There are several functions that don't work the same in the online version vs desktop. Below are a few that are particularly frustrating to me so far:

~ Paste/Formatting - When pasting into the online version, the format doesn't stay.

~ Sorting - There are very limited sorting options in the online version.

~ Copying data. I have about 300 lines of data that's about 10 columns wide and am unable to copy it so that I can paste it into another document and sort it the way I need (since online version has limited options for sorting, as mentioned above). I get the following error when I try to do so: "The data you've selected is too large. Try selecting a smaller set of data."

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  • Luis Antonio commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello, it would be of great help for corporate issues that re-integrate the 3D maps function in excel online since when removing it they also left no alternative to continue visualizing them, working them or creating them.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am so glad I am not the only one complaining about Excel online. Judging from the comments on the page it is not good enough to be called Excel. It reminds me of that bank commercial that states it is wonderful you can get snacks and coffee in addition to banking. Well if all you have is a checking or savings account you may think that is banking. Believe me it is not a financial institution should be able to provide comprehensive money management across multiple arenas.

  • Michelle Antonie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please focus on developer options. Macros should be usable online. Not having these usable in the online version make the files useless.

  • Adminexcelonlineteam (Admin, Office.com) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank you for your feedback we highly appreciate it and happy to share our related progress.
    Copy & Paste:
    We have made great progress in Copy and Paste between two web workbooks, you can now copy formatted Text, formulas, conditional formatting, data validation rules and hyper links, etc.
    Soon will be released to production copy and paste of formatted text to and from Excel Online.
    We are considering increase of copy & paste size.
    Sorting:
    Please check out our recent improvements in Multi level sort in Excel for the Web.
    Coming soon to production sort by Colors and Icons.

    Thank you.

  • Conny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Within a excel-cell, highlighting 1, 2 words using the bold, italic or underlined options, doesn’t unfortunately work. In both the web and app versions of Moveoffice-Teams, the highlighted words are not highlighted, but always the entire text within the cell ... The same is true for color tags ... When will it work?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd say there are at least 100 features I'm used to using that plain out don't exist in this loser version of Office Online. Excel Margins. Can't adjust margins. WTF? Is this 1992 or something? And because its free, my computer doesn't have a "desktop version". So MS justifies this crapware cause the user can just open desktop. But mine is to cheap so there is no desktop. The previous suer of the computer instaled Libra office, but that' sbroken now. One co-worker does all his work in Google Drive and then converts. We can't share files cause Excel Online Loser Version won't open everything, inlcuding documents created in Excel Online Loser Version!

    Tabs in Word. Tabs? Heck, I could write my own Word replacement that supports the .docx format and tabs would be one of the first features to implement. No tabs?!?

  • Arline Acevedo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can't edit text boxes or create them. Kinda really sucks when I'm away from home and I want to work on my small laptop.

  • Daniel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    control/command select shortcut to highlight non adjacent cells, rows and columns for online version

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    After about 30 seconds of using Excel on-line you switch back to the desktop version. I think using pen and paper will be less frustrating than Excel on-line. How did this get released?

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