You’re going to want to setup this trick if you share a lot of files with colleagues via the cloud for simultaneous editing, or to avoid sending copies via email (and receiving hundreds of copies back). And some companies just turn off this feature anyway. However, many institutions have implemented two-factor authentication, which makes that impossible. It’s worth briefly mentioning (so that I don’t get hundreds of comments below) that it’s sometimes possible to setup a webdav connection to Sharepoint so you can access the files via Finder.
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(The search and replace subroutine in the code comes from the Mac OS X Automation site, with thanks.) This is a bit of a hack using AppleScript, so comes without warranty or guarantee. Wouldn’t it be better just to be able to open the Sharepoint cloud file within the Office docs, simply by double-clicking it within the OneDrive listing of macOS’ built-in Finder? 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.
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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.
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How to open Sharepoint cloud Office files directly via Finder (OneDrive for Business/Microsoft Office 365)
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