Let us use the TAB key in Word Online
This is a pretty basic feature request: let us tab to do basic formatting in Word Online documents. Using a table isn't efficient when only one or two rows of separate, organized text are needed. This is a basic feature (it was a typewriter feature-so its been around for a while).
The bigger request is to bring the editors in the Office Online applications up to par with their competitors. For example, Google and Apple support liberal tab use.
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Elizabeth A. Stifel
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I was thrilled that we got Office 365 to work with our box content management. But the product is not a functional word processor missing so many basic functions.
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Anonymous
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100% agreed, the lack of it causes a lot of discomfort and ugly looking documents.
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Richard Forgan
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Ah yes - yet another basic feature of the Office Suite that is not supported in the online version. Another half baked release by Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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Totally agree with this feature request, not only for O365 Word, but all O365 products (e.g. Powerpoint as well). I have to download the O365 application and use a license just to have needed features like the Tab key. Very frustrating Microsoft. If there's a licensing issue or other reason, it's significant enough that your Team work out legal licensing or whatever blockers exist to provide this ability, and if it's technical only, get your UX or UI Teams to prioritize the development of this needed feature.
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Haley
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It is ridiculous that this hasn't already been solved for. Two years of requests and I guarantee you there isn't more of them because people just give up and use their desktop app. I can't keep recommending to use Word Online if it can't be used for simple formatting that tabbing provides. It doesn't even display the document correctly when I eventually . Crazy!
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Shem
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Have told my team to stop using Word Online because of this problem. Plonk!
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Carol
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And people have been asking for this for TWO YEARS. Some customer support. How pathetic.
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Carol
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Tabs are not visible in Word Online. And I cannot add tabs in Word Online. Can it really be that a word processor does not recognize tabs????? Makes Word Online pretty much useless except as a notepad. Cannot even view files written offline correctly. Disgusting.
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Anonymous
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I can't believe this isn't supported yet. This is a basic feature of a typewriter! Come on!
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Anonymous
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Any updates? Just started using Office Online and I came across this string when looking up how to Tab in the cloud version.
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Test
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Also worth adding that MS representatives on other forums said this was being "Worked on!" back in 2014. That was 4 years ago.
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Test
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The lack of the BASIC tab function in Word Online renders it 100% USELESS. I now only work on my .docx files using the main Word application on my PC. There is so much missing functionality in the "online" suite that you CAN'T USE IT TO GET WORK DONE
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Remco Spierings
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We have more than 450 Office 365 licenses and about 200 of our users are using the E1 licence for online use. These users can't edit these files because this simple function is missing. Please fix this in the next release.
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Michiel
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It's hard enough to get users to switch to working in shared environments if everything is working properly. Having basic legacy features disabled kills any motivation of users to switch to working online, as the user is losing functionality in the process.
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Anonymous
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Bloody hopeless
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Anonymous
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Out of all the features they decided to include, a working tab space wasn't one of them. Unbelieveable. Years later, still no TAB.
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KD
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Same here.
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Anonymous
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It's embarrasing that Microsoft has not supported tabs yet. I use Google Docs at work instead.
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Anonymous
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I would also love to see this feature, as well. It really is something that is expected behavior, coming from the Word desktop application. Is it a technically difficult thing to do inside a browser environment?
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Benny Lloyd WIllner
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Of course one should be able to use tabs in documents. Using a table is a poor quickfix that, as you say, isn´t a viable option in various situations.