I'm frequently using saved files as templates. With the new AutoSave function my old files get overwritten as soon as I start editing the file. I have to save the new one immediately with another name otherwise I'll loose the old one. This is annoying.
Pleas allow to deactivate AutoSave function in the Option settings.

open documents that have numbers starting with zeros without Excel dropping the zeros

Allow excel to open files with the same name but different location at the same time

The File Open (Recent) dialog shows :

- a vertical scroll bar and
- an empty/unused space on the right hand

The scroll bar has a fixed position.
Therefore long file names are truncated.

So far no-one can tall what this empty space is being used for.

My suggestion is to
either
- allow users to move the vertical scroll bar more to the right
or
- better, to remove the empty space.

Incresaing the character count in the file path matching with Excel online would be fitting. Or even more. It seems crazy that Excel can't open a valid file that the filesystem allows. People have been complaining about this since Office 2000. The thread below has over 11 thousand views and there are plenty others. Please fix this.

When opening a CSV file in Excel where the first field is "ID", Excel gives a dialog saying the extension does not match the file type (Excel assuming the file type to be SYLK). I have had to make a change to my codebase to change "ID" to "_ID" specifically for users who utilize Excel. I would appreciate a fix ASAP.

Please bring Excel back to how it was prior to the 2016 version. Open only one instance of Excel for all spreadsheets. Have one Ribbon for all of them. Open all windows the same size of all others. Make split view work again. Enough of the 1,000 clicks we have to do more each day because of this SDI very bad idea.

Show all file types in the open file window.

Currently only xls xlsx are shown.

GET YOUR ******* PRO TIP OUT OF MY FACE

I am unable to scroll through the Quick Access list at the side of the pop-up prompt when opening or saving a file, without first clicking in the Quick Access menu. I found recently I could do this in Word, the feature just needs to migrate from Word to Excel and the rest of the Office suite.

Introduce work file auto save option to desktop preferred location

Add file explorer quick access as one of the 'places' like one drive.

I use different versions of Excel when working at home, at the office or at client's workplaces.
I would just like to know, quickly, what version of Excel I am working on. This used to be under the Help Menu in a pop-up dialogue box called "About", if my memory serves me. But I cannot find this in the latest version I have at home (part of Office 365), so I don't actually know which version I am using.

Most times I open really large files separately from others as I'm sure it would consume memory.

But in a situation where I need to open a new document or a recent downloaded Excel - at times it opens in the same Instance of Excel where the large file is open instead of the one with other files.

So would be nice to have a prompt when opening files - but empowered by an Add-in which on can turn on or off for those who might be bugged by this.

while going for "Save As" keep an option to add new folder directly without the need to click on (additional Options) which takes extra time

In the modern world face/iris/fingerprints are used more to improve security. I also use Microsoft Authenticator when accessing my Microsoft Account etc.

It would be useful to add additional steps when opening documents that are password protected with either removing the password and moving to the above options or including them as optional extra layers of protection.

STOP turning the AutoSave back on! AutoSave falsely represents users as updating the file AND creates unnecessary versions. Users turn it off and after Microsoft updates are pushed into the environment - it comes back on. Bad idea!