7 Tutorialsの私たちのチームはオンラインで作業しており、すべての記事は共同作業です。シンプルで、必要なすべてのコラボレーション機能を提供するため、主にGoogleドライブを使用しています。(Google Drive)Microsoftが(Microsoft)OfficeOnlineを発表したとき、私たちは非常に興奮していて、試してみることにしました。これを使用してOfficeOnline(Office Online)を使用して共同作業を行い、このサービス、その長所と短所について多くのことを学びました。Office Onlineには(Office Online)Googleドライブ(Google Drive)よりも多くの機能がありますが、ドキュメントでの迅速かつ効果的なコラボレーションに関しては、不十分であることがわかりました。マイクロソフト(Microsoft)が改善すべき点は次のとおりです(Office Online)私たちや私たちのような他のチームが切り替える前に、OfficeOnlineは次のようになります。
どのように協力して作業しますか?
私たちは地理的に分散した小さな編集者チームです。ルーマニア(Romania)のさまざまな都市に編集者がいて、米国(United) に編集者がいます(States)。私たちの編集者は、さまざまなオペレーティングシステムを備えた複数のデバイスで、どこからでも作業できます。個人的には、自宅のオフィスからコーヒーショップ、電車、飛行機、高さ2000メートルを超える山頂、さらには海辺のビーチまで、あらゆる場所で記事の作成と公開に取り組んできました。同じことが7つのチュートリアル(7 Tutorials)の私の同僚にも当てはまります。
私たちの仕事は主にExcelで簡単な(Excel)Word文書または表とグラフを作成することを含みます。PowerPointなどのソリューションを使用して簡単なプレゼンテーションを作成すること(Sometimes)もあります。その後、 Wordドキュメントは(Word)7つのチュートリアル(7 Tutorials)に関する記事として公開されます。
ドキュメントは単純なブログ投稿であるため、ドキュメントを編集するための多くの機能は必要ありません。しかし、私たちはできるだけ簡単かつ迅速に共同作業を行う必要があります。シンプルでコラボレーション機能が一流であるため、Googleドライブ(Google Drive)の使用を楽しんでいます。たとえば、同じドキュメントで同時に作業したり、同じドキュメント編集ウィンドウでチャットしたり、他のユーザーにコメントを残したり、コメントが配置または解決されたときに自動通知を受信したり、ドキュメントを簡単に共有したりできます。
Office Onlineは(Office Online)OneDriveと十分に統合されており、 Googleドライブ(Google Drive)にはない興味深い機能がいくつかあるため、OfficeOnlineの使用に興味を持っていました。たとえば、Office Onlineの多言語サポートは、 (Office Online)Googleドライブ(Google Drive)よりもうまく機能します。私たちは英語とルーマニア語の2つの言語で書いているので、これは私たちにとって重要です。私たちが気に入っているもう1つの側面は、 MicrosoftOffice(Microsoft Office)でドキュメントを使用するときに変換の問題がないという事実です。すべてのOfficeOnlineドキュメントは、(Office Online)オンラインとオフライン(online and offline)の両方で同じように見えます。これはすばらしいことです。
しかし…(But…) 3週間以上試してみた後、Googleドライブ(Google Drive)に戻すことにしました。理由を学ぶために読んでください。
Microsoftが(Microsoft Needs)OfficeOnlineについて修正する必要がある12のこと
Office Onlineとの日常のコラボレーション作業(collaboration work)で、切り替えを行うことができなかった次の問題が発生しました。
You can't rename a document from the editing window. You must close it and rename it from the OneDrive documents library.
Microsoft Office
Office Online
Navigating documents with the keyboard can also be problematic. On random occasions, when we pressed the Down arrow to go to the row below, Office Online jumped two rows instead of one. The same when pressing the Up arrow - it jumped two rows up. Other times it refused to move to the next row and the cursor remained stuck in the same position, indifferent of the keys we pressed. This problem was solved only after reloading the same document a couple of times.
There is a basic feature that's missing from Office Online: you cannot drag and drop pictures into your document. You must use the ribbon, go to the Insert tab, press Picture and then manually select it. Also, you can copy and paste images into your documents which is better but still not as quick as a drag and drop.
Office Online
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また、画像をコンピュータに保存するための[名前を付けて保存]オプションはありません(Save As)。
Office Online
Office Online
"Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document"
Microsoft Office
Office Online
Word
After you post a comment, you cannot edit it. You have to delete it and create a new one.
When comments are posted, there are no notifications sent via e-mail, to the people collaborating on the same document. This forces people to send additional emails when working on the same document. Google Drive handles notifications very well and Office Online should provide a similar notification system.
Office Onlineは、 (Office Online)Skypeからの通知を表示します。開いたドキュメントのタイトルバー(title bar)に、ドキュメント編集ウィンドウからSkypeにアクセスして返信することはできません。これは非常に迷惑です。
結論
この記事をマイクロソフト(Microsoft)の人々と共有するために最善を尽くします。うまくいけば(Hopefully)、彼らはそれを読んで、私たちが提起した問題を修正し始めるでしょう。OfficeOnlineオンラインサービスが多くの更新と改善を受けることを願っています。共有した問題が修正されれば、 Office Online(Office Online)に簡単に切り替えて日常的に使用し、読者にこのサービスの理由と使用方法を教えることができます。
この記事を閉じる前に、 OfficeOnline(Office Online)を使用したことがあるかどうかを確認してください。印象はどうでしたか?それはあなたが必要とするものを提供しますか?定期的に使用できない欠点はありますか?寛大になり、以下のコメントフォームを通じてあなたの経験を共有してください。
What Microsoft Should Fix About Office Online to Improve Its Adoption
Our team at 7 Tutorials works online and all our articles are a collaborative effort. We use mostly Google Drive because it is simple and it offers all the collaboration features we need. When Microsoft announced Office Online we were very excited and we decided to give it a try. We have used it to work together using Office Online and we've learned quite a lot about this service, its strengths and weaknesses. We have learned that while Office Online has more features than Google Drive, when it comes to quick and effective collaboration on documents, it falls short. Here's what Microsoft should improve about Office Online before we and other teams like us can make the switch:
How Do We Work Collaboratively?
We are a small team of editors, that's geographically distributed. We have editors in different cities of Romania and an editor in the United States. Our editors work on multiple devices with diverse operating systems, from anywhere they wish. Personally, I have worked on creating and publishing articles in all kinds of places, from my home's office to coffee places, trains, airplanes, mountain peaks that were more than 2000 meters high and even beaches at the seaside. The same is true of my colleagues at 7 Tutorials.
Our work involves mostly creating simple Word documents or tables and graphs in Excel. Sometimes we also create brief presentations using solutions like PowerPoint. Our Word documents are then published as articles on 7 Tutorials.
We don't need many features for editing documents because our documents are simple blog posts. But we do need to work collaboratively as easily and as fast as possible. We have enjoyed using Google Drive because it is simple and its collaboration features are top notch. For example, we can work together on the same document at the same time, chat in the same document editing window, leave comments to others, receive automatic notifications when comments are placed or solved, and easily share documents among ourselves.
We were interested in using Office Online because it is well integrated with OneDrive and it has some interesting features that Google Drive doesn't have. For example, the multilingual support in Office Online works better than in Google Drive. This is important to us because we write in two languages: English and Romanian. Another aspect we like is the fact that there are no conversion issues when using our documents in Microsoft Office. All Office Online documents look the same both online and offline, which is great.
But… after giving it a try for a bit more than 3 weeks, we have decided to switch back to Google Drive. Read on to learn why.
12 Things Microsoft Needs to Fix About Office Online
In our day-to-day collaboration work with Office Online we have encountered the following problems that did not allow us to make the switch:
You can't rename a document from the editing window. You must close it and rename it from the OneDrive documents library.
Microsoft Office
Office Online
Navigating documents with the keyboard can also be problematic. On random occasions, when we pressed the Down arrow to go to the row below, Office Online jumped two rows instead of one. The same when pressing the Up arrow - it jumped two rows up. Other times it refused to move to the next row and the cursor remained stuck in the same position, indifferent of the keys we pressed. This problem was solved only after reloading the same document a couple of times.
There is a basic feature that's missing from Office Online: you cannot drag and drop pictures into your document. You must use the ribbon, go to the Insert tab, press Picture and then manually select it. Also, you can copy and paste images into your documents which is better but still not as quick as a drag and drop.
Office Online
Copy
Also, there is no Save As option for saving images to your computer.
Office Online
Office Online
"Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document"
Microsoft Office
Office Online
Word
After you post a comment, you cannot edit it. You have to delete it and create a new one.
When comments are posted, there are no notifications sent via e-mail, to the people collaborating on the same document. This forces people to send additional emails when working on the same document. Google Drive handles notifications very well and Office Online should provide a similar notification system.
Office Online shows notifications from Skype, in the title bar of the document you have opened by you cannot access Skype from the document editing window and reply back. This is very annoying.
Conclusion
We will do our best to share this article with folks at Microsoft. Hopefully they will read it and start fixing the issues we raised. We hope that the Office Online online service will receive many updates and improvements. If the problems we have shared are fixed then we can easily make the switch to Office Online, use it on a daily basis and then teach you, our readers why and how to use this service.
Before you close this article, we would like to know if you have used Office Online. What were your impressions of it? Does it offer what you need? Does it have any shortcomings that do not allow you to use it on a regular basis? Be generous and share your experiences through the comments form below.