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by nojito 2224 days ago
It integrates seamlessly with excel online, ppt online, word online.

Which makes the concept of "file sharing" moot because one just has to paste the new file and the entire team can start working on it without ever leaving the teams app.

The same story holds for integrating with the other 365 apps that MS has.

Additionally, the PowerBI integration is absolutely game changing for sharing performance reports seamlessly to everyone on the team.

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This is my experience. The Teams viewer in word or excel is different than the full browser that is different than desktop.

A bette experience, I think, is post link to google doc in whatever chat, everyone clicks on link and edits doc in browser. I wish that worked well in Teams. Part of the problem is Word365 which seems to break under lots of collaborators and revisions. Track changes is practically unusable with lots of edits. Every time, someone ends up “starting over.” And it’s more hassle to try than to do any serious collabs. But for minor edits, it’s nice.

There’s no advantage to me to “never leave the teams app.”

Have you tried more advanced features like making lists in word? Word and word online behave differently.

And when it comes to file sharing: how do you copy the name of a file into the clipboard?

Click open on desktop. Any changes you make it automatically synced to Teams.

It’s a complete seamless experience for collaboration.