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.
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Anonymous
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I agree with the others. I don't want it, I don't need it, I want an option to bin it!
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Anonymous
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More than 4 years thinking, is there any resolution yet?
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Judy
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At least give the option to permanently collapse this setting. I can pin documents I need frequently. The recommended pane is not useful, takes up too much room and is distracting.
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Patrick
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Any news on this?! We don't want our users to see which files other users have been working on - even if they theoretically have permissions to edit the very same file by themselves ..
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Ben
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This needs to be resolved ASAP. We have some clients which carry some sensitive data and cannot have all users seeing what's been updated my their colleagues.
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Frustrated with Microsoft deafness
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Working on it since 2016? Don't work to improve it!!! Enable users to disable it.
Why won't you folks at Microsoft listen to users?
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Anonymous
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GET RID OF THE "RECOMMENDED" ATTACHMENTS THAT SHOW UP WHEN OFFICE 365 IS LAUNCHED.
GET RID OF THE "SUGGESTED ATTACHMENTS" THAT SHOW UP WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEND AN EMAIL.
WHY CAN'T YOU GET RID OF THIS NOW?
I MEAN NOW!
THESE ARE RIDICULOUS FEATURES DESIGNED BY THOSE WHO ARE INSENSITIVE AND TONE DEAF TO THE WAY OFFICE IS USED.
YOU RUN THE RISK OF SENDING THE WRONG ATTACHMENT OR HAVING SOMEONE SEE CLEARLY WHAT WAS SENT WHEN THEY PASS BY YOUR DESK.
DO YOU WORK IN OFFICES WITH PEOPLE NEARBY? HAVE YOU EVER USED YOUR COMPUTER ON A PLANE?
GET RID OF THESE FEATURES
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Anonymous
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Who thought this would be a good idea??? This is a horrible "feature". Get rid of this completely.
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Anonymous
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Well... I think you are thinking too much (since 2016????) when this is a problem of privacy. So it sould be DISABLED BY DEFAULT, and who need it should enable it individually.
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Nick
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Microsoft have been 'thinking about it' for 4 years?
Do or do not, there is no 'Thinking About it'
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Anonymous
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Get rid of this thing! It usurps the folder names in my list that I DO use all the time. I constantly have to at minimum collapse it. I HATE this. I do NOT want this. Just because I opened a document once, doesn't mean I will ever open it again.
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anonymous
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This is appalling, I have no idea what characterises the "recommended" documents but really do not want my colleagues speculating! All screens should have the option to be clutter free. If this has been outstanding since Nov2015 and is still unresolved it does not speak well of Microsoft sensitivity to privacy issues.
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Anonymous
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RESOLVE IT AT ONCE !
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Barry Zickuhr
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Anatol - I'm not sure where you're seeing that you can remove a document from a "Recent Documents" web part. The only way I've found is to open a bunch of documents to push an offending one off the list.
And this is an issue because someone might be working on an investigation with a document named "Anatol Investigation", then starts up SharePoint for a presentation, hits the Search or a Recent Documents web part and everyone in the presentation knows about the investigation. MAJOR breach of privacy and confidentiality, even if the document itself is not displayed.
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Anatol
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I see a lot of people being (still) unhappy and I am trying to understand why:
- you can remove individual files from any of the lists
- your files are not visible to anyone (unless you shared them or saved in a shared folder)
The only scenario where I see this being an issue is when you share the screen in a meeting or something, but that might happen with any app that contains personal data - you don't open a file with medical results in a meeting, so don't open this neither.
If users see files they should not see (that are not shared with them, and not in a screen sharing), this is a bug, not a feature request and you should open a support request. -
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.