#RELOAD OFFICE FOR MAC HOW TO#
#RELOAD OFFICE FOR MAC FOR MAC#

But surely it’s actually already there…?! However, unless you copy or move the file you aren’t able to share it. If you click the Share button you’re immediately prompted to “move” or “copy” the file to the Sharepoint cloud to make it available to colleagues. This means the autosave and share features don’t work. You are NOT opening the Sharepoint copy in the cloud.

The OneDrive app will sync your Sharepoint/OneDrive for Business files to your Mac’s hard disk, but if you double-click to open any of them via Finder then you’re only opening the copy on your hard disk. But Microsoft’s done almost zilch to integrate Sharepoint access into the rest of macOS and Finder. This is great if you only ever open Sharepoint files using the Office apps’ Open File dialog box.

A new file open/save dialog box in Office apps offers “Online Locations”, and so features Sharepoint/OneDrive for Business integration. There’s a switch at the top left of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that activates autosaving to the cloud, and a Share button at the top right that means you can quickly provide a link so colleagues can access the file too. Features like live editing with colleagues aren’t available.įor an Office 365 business user working within a larger business, “the cloud” equates to Sharepoint cloud integration – or OneDrive for Business, as it’s also confusingly known. You merely open a local version of the file. Unfortunately, if you access your Microsoft Office files using Finder – as most of us do – there’s no way to open cloud files directly.

#RELOAD OFFICE FOR MAC FOR MAC#

Recent releases of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac have been integrated pretty tightly with the cloud. However, I’ll leave this post here for those for whom this feature doesn’t work correctly - or in case Microsoft ever remove or switch-around this feature.

If you open a file in your OneDrive folder via Finder, the relevant Office app (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) will now automatically activate the AutoSave switch, and you can share/co-edit with others without a second thought. Update May 2018: It appears that the Office 2016 apps on Mac now automatically do what’s described below, so this fix is no longer necessary.

#RELOAD OFFICE FOR MAC HOW TO#

How to open Sharepoint cloud Office files directly via Finder (OneDrive for Business/Microsoft Office 365)

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