XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2025-04-14 03:27, badgolferman wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>
>> On 2025-04-13 05:46, badgolferman wrote:
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>
>>>> badgolferman wrote:
>>>>> Chris wrote:
>>>>>> badgolferman wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, we use Microsoft Intune. They switched over from
>>>>>>> MaaS360 which was a royal pain in the ass. They are also
>>>>>>> heavily encouraging us to store ALL our documents on
>>>>>>> OneDrive and Sharepoint rather than locally on the PC. So
>>>>>>> far I’ve resisted doing that, but I do keep critical copies
>>>>>>> on Sharepoint for my colleagues to use in case I get hit
>>>>>>> by a bus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why not just use sharepoint? It's so much easier for everyone.
>>>>>> The bus factor is an important consideration for an
>>>>>> organisation.
>>>>>> I have ALL my work files on Sharepoint which makes life easier
>>>>>> for me and my colleagues. I encourage my team to do the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I often work offline from home or the road and am not always on
>>>>> the company LAN. I also don’t want my files to get lost or
>>>>> locked up by some technical glitch or hack job. Does that make
>>>>> sense?
>>>>
>>>> Not really.
>>>>
>>>> I too am often away from the office. SharePoint/OneDrive works
>>>> fine. You're more likely to irrecoverably lose local files - to
>>>> hardware loss or failure - than using cloud resources.
>>>>
>>>> Very occasionally there is a sync issue with oneDrive but you can
>>>> always go back to a working version due to the in-built history.
>>>
>>> Well, I disagree with you. Most of my work documents are Excel
>>> files and they just don't translate well to Sharepoint when you
>>> want to work on them. Keeping backup copies on Sharepoint is one
>>> thing, but leaving my working versions there is something I'm
>>> unwilling to do.
>>
>> I'm using Excel with online files all the time and never have a
>> problem.
>
> Using a PC bring up an Excel file in Sharepoint. Select a cell with
> text in it. Press F2 on your keyboard to enable editing within the
> cell. Press Insert on your keyboard to enable typeover of the
> characters. That won't work on Sharepoint, but it works on the PC
> application. I typeover individual characters in cells all the time
> and want the original number visible while I'm editing that cell. It's
> cumbersome to use Delete and Backspace keys when the Insert key does
> exactly what I want.
When you say "bring up an Excel file in Sharepoint", I think you mean,
"open an Excel file on a SharePoint site with the web version of Excel"...
...which isn't what you said you were doing:
"they [Excel files] just don't translate well to Sharepoint when you
want to work on them."
>
> Another annoying thing is text size of the whole file. It defaults to
> 100% when I want it at 80%.
>
> I also have 3-4 spreadsheets open while copying and pasting data back
> and forth between them. I can arrange these windows on my PC where
> they are all visible at once and easily Tab from one to another.
> Keyboard shortcuts don't work elegantly through a web browser.
>
> These are just some of the issues with working on Excel files on
> Sharepoint. There are several more and that's why I prefer using the
> local version of Microsoft apps rather than the web version.
The only problem is that you aren't "working on [] SharePoint".
Those are all problems using the web version of Excel, which I would
happily acknowledge is vastly inferior to the desktop version.
Only you can "work[] on Excel files" that are located on a SharePoint
site using the desktop version of the software. No need to "Check out" a
file, and then check it back in when you're done, and multiple people
can work on a file simultaneously.
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