{"id":11597,"date":"2019-09-01T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2019-09-01T18:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T18:27:28","slug":"saving-documents-in-office-365-desktop-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/11597-saving-documents-in-office-365-desktop-applications.html","title":{"rendered":"Saving documents in Office 365 desktop applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those readers who also follow The Register may have noticed that I am writing more for that publication now, though be assured that I will still post here from time to time. My most recent piece is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/08\/30\/saving_documents_in_microsoft_office_its_complicated\/\" target=\"_blank\">saving documents in Office<\/a> and reflects a longstanding annoyance that in applications like Word and Excel Microsoft mostly bypasses the standard Windows file save dialog in favour of its own Backstage,&#160; now supplemented by an additional dialog which the team <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Office-365-Blog\/Save-your-files-to-the-cloud-more-easily\/ba-p\/325133\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>&#160; will help us \u201csave your files to the cloud more easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly the new dialog is small and neat relative to the cluttered Backstage but it is not very flexible and if you use multiple sub-folders to organize our files you will be clicking More save options half the time, defeating the point.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a suspicion that rather than helping us with something most of us do not need help with, Microsoft is trying to promote OneDrive \u2013 which it is entitled to do, but it is an annoyance if the software you have paid for is being used as a surreptitious marketing tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those readers who also follow The Register may have noticed that I am writing more for that publication now, though be assured that I will still post here from time to time. My most recent piece is on saving documents in Office and reflects a longstanding annoyance that in applications like Word and Excel Microsoft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/11597-saving-documents-in-office-365-desktop-applications.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving documents in Office 365 desktop applications<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,61,1519],"tags":[586,662],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-office-365","category-tech","tag-microsoft","tag-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}