Group SkyDrive Help

07. November 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , ,

Hi All,

 

I could use a bit of help with organizing my group folder in SkyDrive. Things have been getting very hectic lately, to the point where everyone wants to switch over to Google Docs and I'd prefer we see what's going wrong and if I can avoid it with SkyDrive first.

 

There's five of us all working on the same documents simultaneously. We're using iPhones, Android Tablets, Win7, Win8, Surface RTs and Surface Pro 2's in the group. So there's a huge range of devices interacting with the same set of files constantly.

 

My account is hosting them all and for the most part, everything was working fine for awhile. But until our last paper, which was a 15-page document with a couple dozen references, commenting, tracked changes, etc. My computer can't seem to stop spitting out new versions of our documents (My Win7 w/ Office 2013) every time it loses connection on campus wifi briefly. It also can't seem to re-sync with the main document and it is causing a lot of issues with our submitted assignments.

 

The last submission we had 3 different copies of the same document floating around on SkyDrive and it seemed like everyone had their own version they were looking at, we couldn't identify the source of the confusion.

 

Has anyone experienced these problems with Group work via SkyDrive? I think part of the problem is the desktop SkyDrive application. I have to turn it off on my computer because it burns through data like a data hungry monster and it causes my campus wifi to boot me off constantly. What are the best practices for ensuring smooth cooperation in such a diverse scenario like I've outlined above?

 

I use SkyDrive for everything, included as my intermediary between Windows 7 and my Surface RT storing all my data (some 15-20 gigs of classwork, music, pictures, etc) and use it on my Lumia 920 all the time too. But when it was just me it worked fine, with a group I feel like I'm being strangled by SkyDrive.

Real-time shared Skydrive editing in Excel, not in Excel web app

06. November 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
A colleague and I can successfully simultaneously edit an Excel spreadsheet in Skydrive Web App but it is clunky, not much better than editing/formatting in Google docs. Can we both open the same spreadsheet in Excel and still edit simultaneously? (Able to see one another's changes by saving/reloading versions often? We are just working with text, not formulas.) We have done this successfully in the past with Word documents (edit simultaneously in Word view, not Word web app view), but are for some reason unable make it work in Excel. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated! Snowdancer55.