我们7 Tutorials^{(7 Tutorials)}的团队在线工作，我们所有的文章都是协作的成果。我们主要使用Google Drive，因为它很简单，并且提供了我们需要的所有协作功能。当微软^(Microsoft)宣布Office Online时，我们非常兴奋，我们决定试一试。我们已经将它与Office Online^{(Office Online)}一起使用，并且我们已经了解了很多关于这项服务及其优点和缺点的信息。我们了解到，虽然Office Online具有比Google Drive更多的功能，但在快速有效地协作文档方面，它却不尽如人意。这是微软^(Microsoft)应该改进的地方^{(Office Online)}在我们和像我们这样的其他团队可以进行切换之前，Office Online ：

我们如何协同工作？

我们是一个小型编辑团队，在地理上分布。我们在罗马尼亚不同^(Romania)城市^(States)都有编辑，在美国^(United) 也有编辑。我们的编辑可以随时随地在具有不同操作系统的多种设备上工作。就个人而言，我曾在各种地方创作和发表文章，从我家的办公室到咖啡店、火车、飞机、2000 多米高的山峰甚至海边的海滩。我在7 Tutorials^{(7 Tutorials)}的同事也是如此。

我们的工作主要涉及在Excel^(Excel)中创建简单的Word文档或表格和图表。有时^(Sometimes)我们还使用PowerPoint等解决方案创建简短的演示文稿。然后，我们的Word文档将作为^(Word)7 个教程^{(7 Tutorials)}的文章发布。

我们不需要很多功能来编辑文档，因为我们的文档是简单的博客文章。但我们确实需要尽可能轻松、快速地进行协作。我们喜欢使用Google Drive，因为它很简单，而且它的协作功能是一流的。例如，我们可以同时处理同一个文档，在同一个文档编辑窗口中聊天，给他人发表评论，在评论被放置或解决时收到自动通知，以及轻松地在彼此之间共享文档。

我们对使用Office Online很感兴趣，因为它与OneDrive很好地集成，并且它具有一些Google Drive没有的有趣功能。例如，Office Online中的多语言支持比Google Drive中的效果更好。这对我们很重要，因为我们用两种语言写作：英语和罗马尼亚语。我们喜欢的另一个方面是在Microsoft Office^{(Microsoft Office)}中使用我们的文档时没有转换问题。所有Office Online文档在联机和脱机^{(online and offline)}时看起来都一样，这很棒。

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但是……^(But…)在尝试了 3 周多之后，我们决定切换回Google Drive。继续阅读以了解原因。

微软需要^{(Microsoft Needs)}解决的关于Office Online的12 件事

在与Office Online的日常协作^{(collaboration work)}中，我们遇到了以下问题，无法进行切换：

You can't rename a document from the editing window. You must close it and rename it from the OneDrive documents library.

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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.

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此外，没有将图像保存到计算机的另存为^{(Save As)}选项。

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Office Online Word

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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显示来自^{(Office Online)}Skype的通知，在您打开的文档的标题栏中^{(title bar)}，您无法从文档编辑窗口访问Skype并回复。这很烦人。

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结论

我们将尽最大努力与Microsoft的人们分享这篇文章。希望^(Hopefully)他们会阅读并开始解决我们提出的问题。我们希望Office Online在线服务将收到许多更新和改进。如果我们分享的问题得到解决，那么我们可以轻松切换到Office Online，每天使用它，然后教您，我们的读者为什么以及如何使用此服务。

在您关闭本文之前，我们想知道您是否使用过Office Online。你对它有什么印象？它提供你需要的东西吗？它有什么缺点不能让你经常使用吗？慷慨并通过下面的评论表分享您的经验。

What Microsoft Should Fix About Office Online to Improve Its Adoption

Oυr 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.