

- #HOW TO USE MICROSOFT OFFICE WITHOUT ACCOUNT WINDOWS 10#
- #HOW TO USE MICROSOFT OFFICE WITHOUT ACCOUNT SOFTWARE#
They have very powerful Windows 10 based desktop PCs, with powerful CPU, RAM, STORAGE, etc. Your locally stored documents (although of course, all of those documents do exist locally)Ĥ) So, this “ forcing” from Microsoft to constrain us to permanently use the cloudĪs a default storage and working environment is really upsetting my customers, and so does it to me. Even worse : when you look for (search) for a document from the Windows search shell menu, it will bring up all the CLOUD BASED OneDrive files results, and not All the "recent documents" shortcut have the URL to the OneDrive Storage rather than local drive storage OneDrive storage (rather then from the locally stored document) : Save it, it will go to the cloud directly, and when you try to open it from the "recent document shortcut", it will actually open the cloud stored file, not your locally stored computer one.ģ) What is even worse, is that the Windows 10 File Explorer itself, tends to force people to open/edit/save locally stored documents directly from (and to) the I ended up testing many different scenarios, and all of them are failing when it comes to saving locallyġ) From MS Word (or MS Excel) in the Office 365 Suite, in the "saving" settings from the "options" menu, even if you check "Always save to the computer", this has no effect, and MS Word (or Excel) still saves it to the cloud directly (even if you create a newĢ) All the same happens, if you open any document LOCALLY present on your computer (in your OneDrive Folder), Word will open it, but as soon as you edit it and They have thoroughly looked online, searched the web, followed all related tutorials and videos, it still does not work. The interface, it is really a pain for them to work like this. And this is a real mess, because it's so slow, so sluggish, and all WAN network operation (opening, saving) are so slow and freeze That I have noticed too) is that : no matter what they do, documents always end up being opened directly online, in their cloud. They have carefully checked (and tried) all settings in order to "force" Word (or Excel) to save to locally to the computer. So they really don't want Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) to be systematically saving to (and opening from) the cloud.
#HOW TO USE MICROSOFT OFFICE WITHOUT ACCOUNT SOFTWARE#
They consider that the background Explorer Integrated OneDrive Software is there for that purpose of syncing up and down all their documents.Indeed, their Internet connection is not strong (nor fast) enough for that, and it all slows down their work and their workflow.They don't want their documents to be opened from the OneDrive Cloud storage, nor to be saved there directly.But they absolutely want to be able to work locally with all their documents (doc, xls, ppt,.And of course, all their MS Office 365 software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc) are "cloud" activated through their MS Account.They do want OneDrive to run in the background and take care of all the files & document synchronization.They also make a very good usage of their OneDrive features & synchronization (they have over 600 Go of documents).Have a weak ( slow, sluggish and limited) internet connexion They have all their documents and files stored locally, they That they are forced to use the software on a "permanent online/cloud based" usage I have deployed Office 365 for my customers (and I use it myself) and although they love the new interface and the new feature, they don't like at all the fact
