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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Anonymous
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Please move this feature to the top of your priority list. A lot of resource hours are being used to continually open documents when working on multiple documents.
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Lucas De Lamper
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I agree. Teams seems to reduce the user experience with bare windows and even some office apps where you can open multiple documents. The 'open in browser' is a poor man's workaround.
I do like teams a lot but this is a serious drawback. -
anonymous
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Thank you for the "open in browser" workaround to view multiple documents at the same time. It did work, but I continue to be frustrated with Teams.The entire experience is very limiting and slowing me down. It's as though someone tried to re-create the Windows experience without the user in mind; limited copy and paste functionality, limited functionality to work within several documents and view Teams Tasks, and chats at the same time. I work on policies and procedures, project charters, project plans, expansive road maps, etc. all cross related and with input from many individuals across my company. I feel like I'm working in a box and being micromanaged, with the knowledge that just on the outside there is freedom and flexibility to accomplish my work efficiently in a manner that is well suited to my needs. Teams is costing me on average 1.5 hrs a day.
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Anonymous
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Really annoying that you can't open multiple windows in Teams. I have two files I need to switch between numerous times a day so opening and closing each time is wearing thin.
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J.H.
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TRY THIS: Use the elipses (...) to open in borwser. You can have one document in each tab. You can even separate the tabs and align the two documents side by side. It will still save it in the place you accessed it from, changes and all.
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j
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FIX IT, it's a complete no brainer - if you are stuck maybe you can ask Slack or other how to do it?
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Anonymous
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I open one document in the app and the other document in the browser
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Anonymous
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I find that I have to download a copy of the ones I want to refer to in order to have them open at same time and avail to edit he one online. Kind of defeating the object of having them online! Frustrating, as then need to delete them from hard drive but its a workaround.
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Anonymous
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+1 the lack of this functionality is very frustrating.
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Anonymous
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I am struggling to comprehend a world in which a group of engineers and product people at Microsoft created a software experience in 2020 that does not allow opening multiple documents at once — something that is utterly foundational to the modern computing environment — and decided: "Yes. This is the product we want to release. This is the user experience that we want our consumers to have."
The mind reels.
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Anonymous
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This is the worst! Was going to use SharePoint/Teams as a server, but not sure if the functionality will support it. Was using the program to become more efficient...doesn't seem to be the case.
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Marina Verhoeven
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same comment from my side, we should be able to open multiple files at the same time.
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Richard
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This is a must, as it stops the real value of MS teams from being used. People just think TEAMS is about video conferencing, but if you just change some of these additional parts you will have a market leading APP
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Angus Wong commented
or allow open multiple team application windows under the same user account
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Anonymous
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I cannot work with two different files stored in Teams at the same time.
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Tom
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Google have managed to make it work with docs/sheets.... come on Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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Yes it's an embarrassment. Only MS could revert to desktop infancy. You have a windowing system - use it!
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[Deleted User]
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"be nice"? It's a ******* embarrassment that this is an issue in 2020.
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Anonymous
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I'm appalled to be back in the 1990s without the ability to keep multiple documents open at the same time. I like the idea of a browser workaround although not certain how that works. If anyone can comment on that or point to a demonstration that would be most helpful.
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Anonymous
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Very frustrating that you lose sight of one document when you go to another in Teams and then have to reopen the first one. Please allow ability to have multiple documents and move among them in Teams.