Excel for Windows (Desktop Application)
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Comments - stop resizing and moving comments
When hiding and un-hiding rows, or moving rows, or having freeze panes on, the comments on cells for no reason stretch or move far down one's sheet. It would be really nice if the size of the comment stays as is and it doesn't move all over.
115 votes -
Adding comment (tool tip) in chart (to various elements of the chart, data points, etc.)
To be able to add comments to a specific data labels in a chart (can be bar chart, line chart)
51 votesThanks for the feedback. This is an interesting idea that we’ll consider for a future release. Please continue to vote on this feature idea.
Thanks,
Scott [MSFT] -
Ability to comment within formulas
Allow us to add commentary to formulas. While it is best practice to break up large formulas over multiple cells, sometimes it has been necessary that I must create large (or just simply complex) formulas. The ability to add commentary would help tremendously for my users or future administrators who are tasked with updating or understanding my financial models.
50 votes -
Enable Excel to send a Task to Outlook
Some users use Excel for tracking of various tasks or operational reviews. At the end, follow-up minutes and tasks will have to be created. It would be great to have a function like in OneNote to create a Task in Outlook. Information about Due Date and Assignee should be embeddable into the cell with a little popup window.
When in Outlook, you should be able to click the task and go back to the Excel document (and specific cell) stored on the SharePoint.32 votesThank you for taking your time to suggest and vote for this feature. We do think that this suggestion has merit but we don’t think that we’ll be able to devote time to it in the near future. We’ll continue tracking votes for it.
Thanks,
Excel Team -
Trust Center Trusted Locations needs to integrate with OneDrive/Live AutoSave redirection
The new OneDrive/Live AutoSave functionality opens a file at a cryptic live.com address, even if the user opens the file from C:\users\myuser\onedrive\somefile.xlsm. Adding C:\users\myuser\onedrive\ as a Trusted Location does no good and the file is still untrusted because it was actually opened from this cryptic live.com address.
The people who designed AutoSave for OneDrive/Live clearly never talked to the people who designed Trusted Locations.
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co-authoring track changes history
I love that using co-authoring you can manage how you share the excel file with your team wherein you can set a user as view only and the others will have the capability to edit. I however extremely need this TRACK CHANGES features 1.) alert notification real-time whenever there is change. This should have an on/off settings so you can turn this on if you want to monitor the progress real-time, 2.) you can check changes history who edit what and you can set the date so that you can select from the start and end date of the project.
26 votes -
Include Track Changes in Teams
As a engineering company we need to be able to track changes to a spreadsheet that is inside a teams tab.
23 votes -
NEED TRACK CHANGES IN EXCEL BACK!
We have to save each edited version now rather than just have a sheet that lists the changes that were made to an excel document. That is absurd. You deemed it limited but the work around we have to do now for it, is ridiculous on our end.
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Disributed calculation (with colleagues computers)
I'm sure that Microsoft's experts will be able to optimize the Power Query code. However, almost certainly there will be users with very massive models that update very long. Please add the possibility of using distributed computing to process Power query queries.
It would be very cool if we will be able to configure in a simple interface wich of colleagues computers in the local network (and maybe on the Internet), whose resources, can be used to speed up the calculation. And when processing queries, use avialable resources together.
In addition, the use of distributed computing in a local network…19 votes -
Em uma tabela compartilhada quando aplico um filtro esse filtro é aplicado para todos usuários da tabela, isso é muito inconveniente
Em uma tabela compartilhada quando aplico um filtro esse filtro é aplicado para todos usuários da tabela, isso é muito inconveniente, pois atrapalha as outras pessoas que estão editando ao mesmo tempo.
16 votes -
Autosave is a disaster
Autosave is fine for a phone but using in in the "real" (Desktop - paid for) version of Excel is a terrible idea.
I have my main files on a portable running Win 10 Desktop and I save first to a local drive expecting them then to be updated in my OneDrive.
This hasn't happened. My iPad copies are the versions since before the misguided upgrade to the Desktop version that made AutoSave compulsary. Files are not then saved on the portable but marked Update Pending which is useless when later in the day I want to check - for…
16 votes -
more intelligent autosave default
Hi there, the new auto save function causing more problems than it is resolving because it is on by default regardless of the nature of the workbooks. I recommend that the user is rather prompted to enable autosave on workbooks with macros or with file sizes > 1Mb instead of enabling it by default.
15 votes -
Track changes request
Request is to enhance the track changes
1- Give us the possibility to track changes on specific sheet.
Often we have a sheet for data processing and we do not wanted to track changes on that specific sheet.
2- Track changes only in a specific area of a sheet
Same as previous but apply to a specific region of a sheet as not the whole sheet need to have changes to be track
3-Have the history sheet always visible
To see history we have to go inside track option and enable the track sheet, in intensive review session we would…
14 votes -
Please provide the feature of tracking the changes made by co-authors in word, excel and powepoint
Please provide the feature of tracking the changes made by co-authors in word, excel and powepoint
13 votes -
Enable data query refresh (with PowerPivot tables) when workbook structure is protected
I want to protect the queries from being changed but want users to have the capability to refresh the data model (that uses PowerPivot).
13 votes -
Add Google Drive Service
It would be greater if I MS Office add Google Drive for user to open documents form that service as well.
13 votes -
SharePoint List Sync
Bring back the SharePoint List sync feature enabling 2-way synchronization between an Excel table and a SharePoint Online List.
12 votes -
Excel Collaboration and Sharing
Issue:
There are many times where my co-workers and I are required to work in the same spreadsheet simultaneously. The excel web application allows us to do this but does not contain the full functionality of excel that is required to do our work. Although Excel already has as shared spreadsheet option, each time a user wants to see updates, they have to save and hope the other person saved their updates as well.Solution:
It would be great to use excel and collaborate in real time just as the web app does but within the excel platform on our…10 votes -
co-authoring track change history
I love that using co-authoring you can manage how you share the excel file with your team wherein you can set a user as view only and the others will have the capability to edit. I however extremely need this TRACK CHANGES features 1.) alert notification real-time whenever there is change. This should have an on/off settings so you can turn this on if you want to monitor the progress real-time, 2.) you can check changes history who edit what and you can set the date so that you can select from the start and end date of the project.
9 votes -
Check boxes
Have the ability to add Check Boxes like in OneNote - be able to simply add a check box into a cell and be able to check it off
9 votes
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