Upload a file to Teams directly from a desktop Office application
When I am creating a new file in an Office document I want there to be an option in the "Save as" location, to save to an Microsoft Team, similar to how there are options to save to your OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and This PC locations. Right now I either have to remember to create the file from Teams or to create the file on my PC and then upload it manually to Teams.

This request has been accepted by the feature team and is now on the backlog. I’ll keep you posted as it moves through the development process.
-Warren
45 comments
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Anonymous commented
The current Save As dialog forces the user through a very confusing Sharepoint structure which does not match the Teams experience. This is compounded by the underlying SP storage not respecting updates to folder name changes in Teams...not good. Simply build a Teams-friendly dialog that displays the Teams and channels to which I have access and use labels like Teams and Channels and Files...not Sites and Documents.
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Cyber Mike commented
What would be cool is if you could optionally configure this SAVE AS option right in the ribbon. If the save dialog box included a checkbox to make a post to the channel too, then allow for post details to be typed in before hitting save.
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Anonymous commented
Seems like a pretty fundamental feature that's missing.
What the first thing you want to do with a new DOC, XLS etc? Save it.
Where do you want to save it? Teams.Come on Microsoft - try and get it right in the first place
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Esben Dalsgaard commented
You can already do this!!! From the Office apps you can add the SharePoint library that is the back end for Teams. Once the SharePoint library is added, you can save Office files directly to a Teams-channel. (Picture attached)
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Gijsbert Tanis commented
This one is really a big need for the user adoption of Teams. As we're currently moving our files to Teams, the user adoption of Teams is held back, because users can't easily find the right place to store there newly created files.
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Anonymous commented
Please let me know if it is possible using MS Office 365 and MS Teams to save a pdf attached to an e-mail directly into teams? Currently I have to first save it on my PC then upload it to Teams but if I'm wasting my time please let me know?
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Lynee Vela commented
How do I add a MS Teams folder to the 'Frequent' section in Sites? The one showing is one that I rarely use and I don't know how to replace it with the one I do you, or add the one I use.
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Anonymous commented
on the backlog since 07/08/2018? Any news?
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Ricardo commented
Any update on this one? Thank you.
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Anonymous commented
Has there been any progress with this feature? Also, has there been any further progress with being able to drop and drag an email attachment in Outlook directly into Microsoft Teams?
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Matt commented
Your Teams sites show up under Sites with the SharePoint logo. This functionality already exists, there is just no indication that it is "Microsoft Teams" since files in Teams are really just a SharePoint site.
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Philip Jennings commented
Ridiculous!! Surely this is what file sharing is all about. Easy transfer of files between Office apps to save time. I have spent ages trying to figure it out with no luck and no real explanations why or solutions. Please fix it
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GillianC commented
what's the status please?
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Anonymous commented
Come on and get this sorted.
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Janna Ekholm commented
We are still stuck with the most recent SharePoint sites list to get access to save to a Team. But I'd rather not get in to that when selling the pros of Teams. A quick link to scroll My Teams/channels is required! Preferably yesterday...
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Anonymous commented
Any updates on this? We're trying to get our users to adopt Teams, but this is holding it up.
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Anonymous commented
You can save to Teams from Word if you Copy the SharePoint link from Teams under the Tab you plan to use and then open up Word and go to Save As. You will need to select your Site and paste the link into the Address Bar.
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Anonymous commented
what is the status?
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Tristan Floor commented
We need this. Saving files directly in team channels from every open/save dialog in explorer or office apps.
This way you can have teams as a single point of file share. Get rid of driveletter file shares and not putting files on places outside the teams channels. As y go u can simply do by accident right now when mapping sharepoint sites to explorer.
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Jon commented
Coming up to a year since the backlog comment was made.
Any update on when this feature, which would remove a lot of user frustration and help drive user adoption, will be available