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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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  • CC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So this issue was raised in April 2018 and has been voted up 632 times and is still an issue. Is anybody from MS actually listening? Even my companies IT division moves faster than this.

  • Cristóbal Parraguez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How come no one thought about this while developing Teams? It says a lot from the company. Microsoft should learn a couple of things from Google

  • Chad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I 199% agree, you need to have a "open in new window" option for the documents and files. I have all these screens and Teams is locked to a single little window.

    For now the work around is to involve browser windows and open the files/documents via sharepoint, but it is a pain. (also of note, you can't have multiple tabs/windows of teams open in the browser - it has problems with state)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Oh I'm glad it's not just me and my magnetic field! Hopelessly inefficient having to cut and paste into word docs if I need to have more than one doc open at the same time. That's actually most of the time. Needs to be fixed stat!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The inability to switch back and forth between two files in Teams without having to close the file I am in is very inefficient. I hope this gets resolved soon. Thanks,

  • Chandy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am a new user of teams and find not being able to open multiple documents within the Teams platform very, very limiting. It feels like a pre-Windows program, without this feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    … and to have possibilities to chat on both (or more) , while you a previewing files

  • Dennis.Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This must be embarassing to MS to have such an unusable product for collaboration.

    Today, I had a teams meeting, where we had an agenda, minutes, and 4+ reference documents. They are all stored in the teams folders, but... only one can be opened at a time.
    So yes, I have to download to my computer in order to have them open at the same time, or even to switch easily from one to another.

  • Ian commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teams is looking so basic....can't open multiple windows in an MS "Windows" program....!!!

  • Macky commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Voting this up in hopes there is a fix soon. This is so basic and completely ridiculous. MS Teams designers should be embarrassed.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I've also just come across this deficiency of functionality in an otherwise useful product.
    Seems to be quite a common stumbling block.
    Yes, there are workarounds but that is not the point, if it was designed properly we wouldn't have to do workarounds

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have just wanted to compare two files. I opened one file, clicked Open in Desktop App, and it opened in Word. I then closed the Teams file and opened the one to which I wanted to compare the first. This worked fine. Does this answer anyone else's problems?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Given that this comes from the company that gave us 'Windows' (get the hint?), this oversight is embarrassing. How little they understand?

  • SWS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am also struggling with this. In particular, I am needing to go back and forth between a file that is in one team folder, with a file that is in another team folder. If I download one, so I can see them at the same time, I lose the work my other team members are contributing. This has been extremely problematic for our work.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Having just experienced 'Teams' for the first time while trying to help my children with their schoolwork, I find it staggering that this multiple document facility is missing. To watch my children write a bit in one document, then to close it and navigate to another reference documents, then close that, and back again over and over is just embarrassing.
    It feels a bit like it did in the mid 1980s.
    Sort it out.

  • Pat Shanahan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am a new user of teams and find not being able to open multiple documents within the Teams platform very, very limiting. It feels like a pre-Windows program, without this feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really need this. Would be OK with openeing files in their native applications (need Word, Excel, something displaying PDFs)

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