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Ability to open multiple documents

Currently If I am editing a File in Teams, and if I have to refer another file present in Teams, I have to forcefully close existing document and go to the next file. It will be a nice to have feature if I can open other documents in Preview mode if I am editing a document.

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  • Richard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree. Just in the middle of editing a document when a colleague sent through a chat message asking a quick question. There needs to be a way of quick-tabbing between applications perhaps, without closing a document that is actively being edited?

  • George commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Fully agree. I'm a newby on Teams, went to an organisation which uses it all the time. I cannot see why. Our documents for a meeting are in Teams. Meeting starts, I open the agenda. Forced to close it to see the first document for item 1 on the agenda. Forced to close that to see doc 2. Etc, etc. Totally unproductive and completely incredible from the company that created Windows. It seems MS has turned full circle.

    So back to old fashioned printing (nice for the environment) or download all documents and organise a personal shadow directory?

  • Clive Shergold commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree this is essential. How can I coordinate with other people if I cannot coordinate with myself? I need to see the current agenda, the minutes of the last meeting, and the action log; and all that is before I start on project documentation...

  • L. D. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why can't we open more than one document in Teams? How can we share and edit information on different documents as a "team" if we have to close a document to open another. What is the point?

  • Vladimir Rosu commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can not understate the need of this feature. I'm a lot less productive without being capable to open multiple documents at the same time. While the thick apps offer a way to do this (open in Word), it just seems sometimes that does not work, throwing up various errors

  • Timothy Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Until they can fix this, the most obvious way to use multiple windows is to open Teams in a browser window, as opposed to using the desktop app. Each time you click on the Teams app, a separate window opens.

  • Project Manager Man commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE YES. I am being forced to use MS Teams on more and more accounts and my productivity is taking a huge hit without being able to have multiple documents open at once. Or at least give me an option to open documents by default in my browser

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Was working on a tender - wanted the original ITT open with the supplier response and the scoring matrix - cam across this web page when googling how to open multiple tabs!

  • Liz Dvorak commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! This features is so badly needed. If Teams is truly where we're directing our end users to go to collaborate, we need to be able to reference other documents, chats, files, tabs, simultaneously in order to gather the information we need while working!

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I was surprised to find this wasn't an foddering. This needs implementing as a priority, is it on the roadmap ?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed! This feature would be much appreciated, the option to open and edit several documents at the same time (in tabs preferably).

  • Alex Carlock commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding a "Me too". Being limited to basically one thing at a time (document, vs chat, vs meeting, etc.) makes it harder to stay productive.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes I agree this is such basic functionality across applications and I am really surprised it does not exist in teams

  • Gerard Fernandez Gancedo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Opening multiple documents at the same time is necessary. Currently it is very cumbersome if you have to edit several documents. Currently it is inefficient.

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