More than 1.2 billion people around the world use Microsoft Office.
Discount 80% of Fortune 500 companies using Microsoft with cloud-based business solutions. Even then, the remaining population is a huge intergalactic network of users. Some may still be in the single-user habit of saving files to the desktop, but the larger portion should take advantage of the cloud connectivity that Office 2016 provides.
The cloud, forecast to be a $204 billion market by 2016, is the way forward for office productivity. Microsoft was late to the game, but is now a part of the pack that is changing the way we collaborate and grow. Office 365 has propelled Microsoft to the top of the popularity charts.
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Let's start small by understanding the different ways you can save your Office 2016 files in the cloud. Collaboration starts from the Save command.
Save a document the first time by clicking the Save on the quick access toolbar or by displaying Backstage view by clicking File> Save or Save As . Either action opens the Save As page and gives you the locations to save your file.
You can save the document to a specific folder on your desktop or save it to the cloud on OneDrive. You can also add a SharePoint storage location if your company runs the platform. Click Add a place to include the locations.
By default, Microsoft Office. only provides OneDrive as a cloud storage option for the average user.
The other cloud options (ie Microsoft's competitors) are not available on the screen above. You can navigate to local (i.e. sync clients) Dropbox and Google Drive folders from the Open or Save As dialog, but there is no way to directly access the cloud folders from the previous screen.
That's the gap we're going to bridge with some tools and tips.
Including the other two dominant cloud storage options brings some benefits:
Microsoft Office Online supports Dropbox as a save location for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The integration, introduced in 2014, allows a team to work collaboratively on the same Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in a shared folder with Office Online. Files stored in Dropbox can also be sent directly with Outlook without worrying about attachment size restrictions.
Sign in to Office.com and start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
At the bottom left of the page, click Add a place and then check the box next to Dropbox. Dropbox is added as a new save location.
Adding Dropbox to Office 2016 on the desktop is a more elaborate process. You can use the local Dropbox folder as the default location to save Office files.
Click File> Options> Save .
Click the Browse and navigate to the local sync folder for Dropbox. Click OK .
Do registry tweak batch files work??
There is a batch file available [No Longer Available] that modifies the registry in Windows 7 or 8 to add Dropbox as a service within Office 2013. But it doesn't work with Office 2016, although you can go to background view and add Dropbox as a connected service.
But the Save to dropbox The option on the Save As page is no better than manually browsing for the local sync folder on your computer.
Here is the Dropbox forum where the issue is discussed. Commenter Andrew S also updated the batch file for Office 2016, in case the original doesn't work for you. But I couldn't get it to work on my installation and the discussion reveals that other users couldn't get it to work either.
Microsoft Office may be at war with Google Drive Don't buy Office 2016! Here's why you don't need it Don't buy Office 2016! Why don't you need it? Should you buy the standalone suite version of Office 2016? We make our case for why we think you shouldn't and show you what you can do instead. Read More An official Google Drive Add-on for Microsoft Office is the bridge between the two office suites that makes it easy for you to edit, email, and share Office files stored in Google Drive. The Google Drive plugin allows you to access files directly from your Microsoft Office programs without relying on the Google Drive sync client on your desktop or browser.
The add-in works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (from version 2007 to version 2016). The driveforoffice.exe installer is a download of more than 900 KB.
After installing the plugin, grant it the necessary authorization to access your Drive account. Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The plug-in gets a dedicated spot on the ribbon.
Click File> Google Drive> Open from Google Drive .
In the dialog, click the file you want to open.
If you select a file saved as Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, it will open in the corresponding application in a separate window. You can of course download the file to your desktop in the correct Microsoft Office file format.
You can save an Office file to Google Drive in any folder and then share it as any Drive file. But thanks to the plugin, you can do it from within Office itself.
Sign out of Google Drive> Settings> Account .
The Google Drive plugin is useful for attaching files stored in Drive with any email sent through Outlook. To attach a file from Drive to an email...
At the top of the app, click New Email .
Click Insert files using Drive .
Choose the file you want to send.
Click Select .
Instead of sending a large file via email, you can send a link to the file in Google Drive. You can also use the add-in to save Outlook attachments to Google Drive (Save attachments to Drive ).
It's only natural that each office suite makes it much easier to store files in its corresponding cloud service and not in its competitor's. But Microsoft makes it less of a pain to use iCloud Drive to sync Office files created on a Mac or PC with an iPad or iPhone. With the Microsoft Office apps for iOS, you can work on Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files on a Mac or Windows PC, then open them on an iPad or iPhone through iCloud.
Please note that support is limited because you cannot create a new document and save it to iCloud . You can only access documents already created and stored in iCloud. Also, the option to use iCloud isn't obvious at first.
Here's how you can find iCloud within the Office apps on iOS after launching any of the Office apps.
Tap on the Open icon (at the bottom right of the application interface).
Tap on More . iCloud Drive opens with the default document selection interface. Open, edit, and save Office files to your iCloud Drive account.
There is no way to save iCloud as a permanent place in the options, like in Box and Dropbox. But something is better than nothing for all of us who would prefer to use iCloud, instead of OneDrive or Dropbox.
Office apps also support Google Drive as a location from which you can open files. There is no “Save to Google Drive” functionality yet.
Two productivity tools come together with the help of the Evernote for Outlook add-in . Save email messages and attachments from Outlook directly into Evernote. You can customize your options. For example, you can clip all Evernote attachments with one click, and you can also save the entire email thread, instead of clipping the content of the selected email. You can also attach notes from your Evernote account to any email you're writing in Outlook.
Get started saving your emails with the Quick Start Guide.
Evernote for Outlook is available to new Outlook.com and Office 365 users using Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016, and Outlook on the web.
Taking more than one sheet from IFTTT, Microsoft has created its own automation service called Microsoft Flow . Microsoft Flow has a dedicated website with ready-made templates to simplify your work. At this time, Microsoft has connected 41 different web services to its core Office operations.
Try the Sync Files category to explore the different business scenarios you can apply “The Flows” to. For example, copy new files in Box to a specific folder in OneDrive.
Flow is in an early preview stage, with more recipes and integrations set to follow.
IFTTT needs no introduction today. Gavin has already taken us through the many Office tasks that he can automate with IFTTT Smart Recipes. How to automate Microsoft Office tasks with IFTTT recipes. , you now have 50 homework recipes for Microsoft Office. We show you how it works and offer you a selection of recipes. Read more . Last year, Office 365 channels went live. You'll find hundreds of productivity recipes, but for starters, let us focus on IFTTT's dedicated OneDrive channel.
To give you a quick idea, check out three recipes to help you move your Office files to the cloud.
Today, you can access your files from anywhere. Collaboration is one of the big reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016 13+ Reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016 13+ Reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office 2016 is here and it's the time to make a decision. The productivity question is:should I upgrade? Te damos las nuevas características y las razones más frescas para ayudarte ... Leer más. Pero puede llevar el trabajo en equipo aún más lejos no solo confiando en las propias herramientas de colaboración de Office 3 Herramientas de colaboración y trabajo en equipo de Microsoft Office Online que impresionan 3 Herramientas de colaboración y trabajo en equipo en línea de Microsoft Office Online que impresionan con Office 2016 y su contraparte en línea gratuita, Office Online, Microsoft ha Desarrollé nuevas herramientas para que los equipos colaboren de forma remota y en tiempo real. Te mostramos lo que no te puedes perder. Lee más, pero también trae los beneficios de otras aplicaciones de almacenamiento en la nube.
Ya no es necesario decidir entre la versión instalada de Microsoft Office o la basada en la nube. Utilice ambos guardando sus documentos en la nube. Pero tu?
Dinos. ¿Es usted un gran usuario de OneDrive o de cualquier otro servicio de almacenamiento en la nube? ¿Cómo guardas tus documentos de Office en la nube??
