Excel Online continues to disappoint new users and is hampering adoption of both SharePoint and Teams. Even if the library and site collection are set to "Open in client application", every Excel file that isn’t opened directly form the library in SharePoint or files tab in Teams, opens in the garbage online version, then has to be change to desktop, then user has to close the useless window of the online version.

There is no option to open in the desktop version for a file attached to a planner task embedded in Teams, so then it is either jump through the hoops described above, or go search the files tab and hope you find the correct file/version. Thereby defeating the purpose of attaching the relevant file to the task in the first place. The same is true for any file that is linked using the “File Viewer” web part in SharePoint, you have to go through the online version to get to the desktop version.

Give us a setting to turn the online version off and default to the desktop version always.

To sum up my view of this, the Excel Online version is not a value add, so it is waste by any standard of process analysis and should be eliminated.

This is beyond ridiculous that this “Online version” even exists with such limited functionality.

Row and column targeting highlighter. I would love a feature that when I point or click on a cell, the entire row and column is highlighted with a
color that I can choose from a pallet. This feature would confirm when entering values into a specific cell, that you can ensure you are working on the right row or column because often sheets are very large and making sure you enter a value into the right cell can be a problem especially after hours of staring at a spreadsheet with many values. This feature can of course be turned on or off and the highlight color for the row and column should be independently customizable from a palette of highlighter colors. One color for the row and a different one for the column if the user chooses. The highlight can be turned on or off for the entire viewable row or column or both and would follow the cursor. Like a scope on rifle, it would give viewer(s) precision and they would be able to look at an entire row or column of figures at a glance. If the cell is double clicked, then the highlight would be “locked in” temporarily allowing the user to move around the sheet and the specific values in an entire row or column would still be highlighted. In the case a Macbook, pressing harder on the trackpad to invoke the second click to lock in the highlighter would be a great feature. Navigating around the spreadsheet and having a cell “targeted” by highlighting the entire column and/or row allows the user to visually confirm they are entering values into the correct cell in a large sheet quickly. It also allows the user to read values all along that row or column when reviewing specific cells. Sometimes I have to hold a ruler up to my screen if the sheet is really large and I want to make sure I am looking at the right row or column and this highlighter would simply take away a lot of eyestrain and make working on large spreadsheets more comfortable and efficient.

Wing Lee
Winglee1@outlook.com
+6476326900
Toronto, Canada

Please improve the online edition for cursor visibility? We still have a poorly visible cursor (green and has no editable options) in Office Excel 365 due to the restrictions on not allowing Windows schemes it appears. It may seem not to be a problem when looking at a simple sheet. But for very large complex sheet with colour this is major issue. This is a problem for partial colour blindness, and especially where the cursor must be used on coloured sheets. No contrasting colour is applied. Can we have an option to have -
1). A larger cell cursor line thickness, 2) A default black cursor to be available at all times.
It is well known that Excel's cursor is less visible than it used to be in Office 2010 and prior. When searching in a sheet, often one cannot see where the cursor has jumped to for a few seconds or more.
Thanks. S.MacLaren :)