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Enable collaboration with others editting in Excel desktop

In Word and PowerPoint you can collaborate from the desktop as well as online. In excel, whenever anyone opens the document on desktop others get locked out of editing and can only view. This is a problem for our organisation since occasionally remote team members need to edit the file on desktop but failure to close down the document properly (either accidentally or because the OS somehow did not release the file lock which has happened on Mac's) means the entire team is suddenly unable to work for extended periods until we track down the culprit.
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66 comments · Collaboration and Sharing · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

started · AdminDan Battagin [MS XL] (Admin, Office.com) responded

= 2017-03-28 =

Hi all,

Great news – as of today, we’ve released co-authoring in Excel for Windows Desktop to anyone who is in the Insiders Fast group. If you’re an O365 subscriber, you can get yourself into that group by going to http://office.com/insider

Once you are an Insider (Fast), you can co-author on files stored in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online, with anyone editing in Excel Online, or Excel on mobile (Android, Windows, and iOS).

We’d love to hear how it goes, and we encourage you to invite anyone you work with to also update to Insiders Fast (so that you can co-author with them).

You can read more at https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/28/new-office-365-march-co-authoring-excel/

Cheers,
Dan [MS]

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Hi folks,
As Guy mentioned, we are working on this now. It’s a lot of work, so it’s not going to be done super-quick, but rest assured that this is something the team is focused on.
Note: We’d still love to get votes for this request if it’s important to you.
Thanks,
Dan [MS]

= 2017-03-28 =

Hi all,

Great news – as of today, we’ve released co-authoring in Excel for Windows Desktop to anyone who is in the Insiders Fast group. If you’re an O365 subscriber, you can get yourself into that group by going to http://office.com/insider

Once you are an Insider (Fast), you can co-author on files stored in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online, with anyone editing in Excel Online, or Excel on mobile (Android, Windows, and iOS).

We’d love to hear how it goes, and we encourage you to invite anyone you work with to also update to Insiders Fast (so that you can co-author with them).

You can read more at https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/28/new-office-365-march-co-authoring-excel/

Cheers,
Dan [MS]

= older =
Hi folks,
As Guy mentioned, we are working on this now. It’s a lot of work, so it’s not going to be done super-quick, but rest assured that this is…
QAT Spacing

The QAT spacing on the 2016 version is impossible to work with and forcing me to look at creating a new tab. I liked the spacing on 2013 which allowed me to view all my written macros and buttons. The new spacing pushed 5 of my buttons to a drop down. Please correct this spacing issue. The spacing does not need to be this large when you don't have a touch screen. I am one of 35 employees in my company that this effects. We have a customized QAT that all employees use.
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31 comments · Viewing / Navigating Workbooks · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

started · AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Admin, Office.com) responded

This one is getting underway – we’ve been channeling the feedback to the core team in Office that owns that UI, and they’re working on it!

Thanks,
John [MS XL]
Restore the pasting of tab separated text into columns from an HTML <pre> block and web data feed that has been removed from v16.0.7927.1020

When using data/from web or pasting a table from word or pasting an HTML <pre> block from a web page the tab separated data used to get automatically placed into columns. With v16.0.7927.1020 this has stopped - all the data goes into one column. There remains the option (checked by default) to do this when ingesting data from the web, but it no longer happens. When ingesting data from a web feed, you can't use the "paste as text" option to achieve this effect, so this change in behaviour has effectively broken our application's reporting facility. It still works in v16.0.7369.2055.
There's discussion at: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/mso_2016-msoffice_excel/excel-ignoring-tabs-when-pasting-from-word/41efb3fd-87a6-4e58-9ad0-8c45aa057771?rtAction=1494980512165 giving clear steps to reproduce.

If there is a workaround or setting to change in the spreadsheet, this would be invaluable. Ideally, though, a fix in the next update would be best. Or maybe add a setting in the next update.
When using data/from web or pasting a table from word or pasting an HTML <pre> block from a web page the tab separated data used to get automatically placed into columns. With v16.0.7927.1020 this has stopped - all the data goes into one column. There remains the option (checked by default) to do this when ingesting data from the web, but it no longer happens. When ingesting data from a web feed, you can't use the "paste as text" option to achieve this effect, so this change in behaviour has effectively broken our application's reporting facility. It still works in…
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10 comments · Data Import · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

started · AdminEric Patterson (Program Mgr - MSFT) (Admin, Office.com) responded

We are aware of this issue and working on resolving in an update.
Add User Voice Button to Excel interface

To add a button to reach this page directly when there is a new idea to work on ... Ideas will come more fresh and easier to describe..
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1 comment · Other · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

started · AdminDan Battagin [MS XL] (Admin, Office.com) responded

Great news – we’ve started work on this.

The plan is to have a button under the File menu (something like File > Feedback > Submit Ideas for Excel) that will bring users here to UserVoice.

Cheers,
Dan [MS]