Google is superior in co-creating documents. Email probably prefer outlook although I stopped creating folders years ago (other than a couple for things I know I’ll want to reference like being given positive feedback from bosses) and if I need to find an old email I just use the search features. But google is way more intuitive across departments
I don’t understand the criticism of M365. Everything works well. Collaboration is easy via Teams and Sharepoint.
Excel does not work well. Several of the quick function buttons you can add at the top will grey out and not work randomly. There's a scrolling issue that still hasn't been fixed when in a pivot table where you have to completely close out excel to get it to stop. Sometimes the pivot table control menus won't showing up. I've double clicked on it before and it didn't open. Then you double click again and it says something about not opening properly and if I would like to open in safe mode. I could go on and on.
I've googled it before and they apparently aren't uncommon issues including today where I saw someone mention another issue I've had that I had forgotten about. I also can't imagine a scenario where a simple spreadsheet with <1,000 lines is stressing your PC.
Ok so we have some M365 fans in here so I need some help. As mentioned we are merging and the new policy is emails are all deleted after 90 days unless you archive which saves for 180 days. Is there a way I could take emails and store them offline in batches to get around this. Just feel saving shit to Word is a giant hassle.
Depends on your administrator settings but generally yes there is a way to export a local file (.pst I believe) and then import it into a personal folder so you could back them up by quarter.
Counterpoint: I block off time Friday to fill my calendar with fake meetings and meetings I don’t plan to attend so I can avoid as many non-essential internal calls as possible.
If you're using the Outlook desktop app, right-click the email you're wanting to save, then Send to OneNote and it'll export the email to a file there. Good for organizing emails for certain projects, senders, etc., if you're worried about retention policies.
Might could use PowerAutomate to send certain emails to OneNote, OneDrive, or Sharepoint. You'll need a nerd to set that up, though. I'm just a strategy guy.
I've never understood retention policies. Emails don't take up that much space. Makes me wonder if it's some kind of legal thing
Way back in the day I had an outlook rule that copied any new message to my inbox to a .pst file/outlook folder I had created.
I mean the mint ones are a top seller for sure but I do also dabble in toilet bowl cleaner on occassion
I feel like this doesn't get you out of having to produce emails older than the retention policy though.
I think they are written such that you have to retain certain types of emails for regulatory reasons but most get parsed and removed. Less data to keep secure / private and limits the amount produced in unforeseen discovery.
Oh boy, an entirely different subject. Yes, I do. But my company disabled the "share" feature about a month after I started.
Excel will randomly "hide" (not actually using the Hide feature) entire columns from me while I'm screen sharing, and the only solution is to restart Excel.
I guess they make sense if you're following what is legally required in terms of retaining emails. I work in the healthcare area and we definitely have to keep emails around for many years.
My thought is I wonder if it's cheaper for companies to deal with whatever fine you'd receive by deleting emails/data before you're legally allowed to vs. the cost of it being used in a lawsuit.
You better hope the government isn't interested in the lawsuit or you'll be joining the ranks of Arthur Andersen pulling shit like that.
My original thought was that if your company's email retention policy is to delete any email older than 90 days permanently, regardless if it's legally allowed, then it seems very likely you're doing something that's going to get you sued. One year seems reasonable for concerns about cost, 90 days is actively making things harder on your employees if your company is bigger than 50 people.
It will display the wrong numbers in formula cells for me. You have to scroll down the page and back up for it to display correctly. When you're trying to reconcile large amounts of money, it's super helpful!
Our email retention is 2 years and I’m still trying to figure out how I save some of it like HR emails I want to keep. Pain in the ass
Saw that on social media earlier. Why couldn’t I have been blessed with this to get out of a 4pm Friday call
Scheduling a 4 pm call on a Friday and ending it at 4:53 with "I'll give you back 7 minutes" should get you fired.