Ability to remove or hide "Your recent online documents"
The landing page automatically displays "Your recent online documents". There should be an option to hide these from being displayed permanently or temporarily. I don't want other people seeing my business when I start Office 365 :-)
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Thanks for sharing your feedback about the recently used documents. We are working on making this feature better in our future releases.
54 comments
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Ahmed Ali
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I'm having the same problem.
Now I'm thinking of not renewing my subscribtion. -
Greg Warnick
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This is still not resolved?!
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Rob K
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Users should not see recent documents they don't have permissions on and this allows it! Give admins the ability to turn it off or your going to loose customers. This for sure has to violate GDPR standards as well
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Annie Juan
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Hey, does anyone remember Apple's old "Think differently" advertising? Well, Microsoft is just the opposite - they want everyone to think the same ... the same as them, that is. "We will implement a feature a certain way, and you will like it that way. There is no need for any other way. Now go away." (Apple thinks it's customers should work the same way, it's way, which is just different from Microsoft's way.)
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anonymous
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This is a problem with GDPR compliance (In Europe). If I have recently been working on documents with clients' names on, then they show up on the homepage before I even log in, potentially this could be contravening GDPR which is a major issue for any business in the UK or Europe. You really need to sort this out asap. Dropbox allows you to do this, so it can't be that hard for Microsoft to get this function too, surely? I will probably need to leave the service due to this.
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Marco Kläy
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I vote now for this problem that is a long time pendent. I hope Microsoft will find a solution.
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Nicho
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Can Microsoft please provide an update on the progress of this item ?
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Shiroy
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Please disable this - it is very big and takes up a lot of space, especially when you open excel on a smaller monitor (I'm talking about the recommended files on the "Home" page.). Just provide us with an X to hide it. We already see the recent files, and pinned files and shared files. Recommended never shows me the files I need and doesn't help in any way other than pushing the important stuff (Recent / Pinned / etc) further down the page. You could also move Recommended into a tab (at the same level as Recent / Pinned / Shared). That would also be nice.
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Anonymous
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Hey, you CAN remove the documents you don't want anyone to see. Hover over the document's name or tile, click on the 3 dots (...) and select "Remove from List"
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David Stewart
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It is a compliance issue for my organization. It would be very helpful if we could turn this off!
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Anonymous
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Gee, people have only been asking to disable "recent files" and "recommended" for years.
Obviously MS doesn't care what people want; their feature developers are apparently just cubicle creatures that never worked in the real world. Witness the "focused inbox" default view in Outlook online. Yeah, they know which email I should look at.
Oh, while they're at it, they might consider not wasting so much space in their user interfaces. Small, compact, fast, interfaces are what is needed in the business world.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE let users turn on/off the recent and recommendation panes.
Because of GDPR and such this is a huge pain.Thanks!
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Anonymous
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this is nuts, my confidential docs are there on any team meeting when I go to Sharepoint? ARRGGGHHH!
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David
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Hi, can we get an update on this. The option to remove recent documents and email attachments is a must have. Im pushing to use delve as our main employee directory but I cant due to management not wanting there recent documents and email attachments being displayed.
Its been three years and no update, whats going on?
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Anonymous
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This is not just about recent documents. Thre has been for the ast year a "Recommended" section right at the top. Why is Microsoft recommending to me files to look at? It is utterly inappropriate and presumptuous of MS that they should know what is a file that should be recommended for me to look at.
Every section on that age must have an edit option and an ability to hide. Continuing to ignore your customers in this way only shows contempt
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Michelle
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WOW.. everyone can see my employee assessment graphics when I accidentally un-minimize my office apps screen when I'm hooked up to the meeting room's screen. And they have known for 3 years. Way to go Microsoft.
As one famous person would say, SAD.
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Tammy Gatlin
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This is causing confidentially problems. FIX IT!
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Nicho
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you guys have been thinking about this for 3 years. When is something going to be done about it ?
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Mantvydas
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There might be a GDPR breach in the names of the files traveling from local machine's recent documents to Office 365 home page... how Microsoft doesn't see it as such? Are they waiting for an official complaint?
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Anonymous
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This new Home Page experience does not work for our company.We have a group of users, that should only have access to email, can now see documents created by administrative staff. We shouldn't have to change our current workflow to accommodate a change in functionality that we didn't request.