Gerard:
To bring you up to speed. Over the last year or so MS has been refocusing how this forum is used.
This forum is now intended to be a place users can ask for help and get suggestions from (unpaid) subject matter experts (instead of relying on paid MS Support untrained "script monkeys" who don't have a clue).
MS now wants users to make this kind of "new feature" request or actual bug report on the "UserVoice" forum. Too bad MS wants you to be a mind reader to figure this out because they haven't bothered to publicize this policy change. And it is too bad that
the way the UserVoice forum is being used it totally random, (MS) "user" driven, no corporate vision or unity. It is a real "dog's breakfast".
So, I'm trying to make 2 points:
- MS is no longer monitoring this forum for suggestions
- MS is actively monitoring suggestions posted to UserVoice
You, and anyone else interested should make your request for "layers" or shape locking in this forum:
PowerPoint -http://powerpoint.uservoice.com/
"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites
You can use the Office or Windows 10 "feedback" (**)applets but then your suggestions just fall into a black hole. You get no feedback from MS about your feedback.
A better place to submit this type of feedback the "UserVoice" forum. You can submit suggestions like this to the forum either by "voting" and commenting on a similar existing suggestion or by creating
a new suggestion for others to vote and comment on.
It is also a good idea to provide cross posted links.
Put a link back to this answers.com posting on UserVoice, and add a reply here with a link to your specific posting on UserVoice.
Pointing to "uservoice" is a wasted effort. That is just the high level identifier with no link to MS specific subsites!
- MS has SEVERAL dozen sub sites.
- MS does NOT have naming standards for those sub sites.
- MS does NOT have a home page to guide people to all of the sub sites.
<HINT HINT MS!>
This next link is a collection of MS UserVoice.com sites I’ve encountered (I’m sure there are more):
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows\_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f
Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided below or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality
from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016
and to at least partially undo the 2016 changes to the way the Pen input works.
Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. Also include a link to this question. If you do make a suggestion,
copy the link to the UserVoice suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.) Please get all of your friends and co-workers who use
Office to vote for your issue!
This blog has a picture to show MS really is looking at UserVoice sites:
http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html
https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10
Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:
Restore pinned folders in Save options in all Office productshttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12582018-restore-pinned-folders-in-save-options-in-all-offi
Please, can we have the default tab stop signs back to the ruler!!! (Word teacher in trouble)https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9921564-please-can-we-have-the-default-tab-stop-signs-bac
Add a way to update all fields in a documenthttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11685894-button-for-updating-all-fields-in-the-entire-documHThe
initial suggestion is to add a button, I added a comment to add an “Option” to auto update all field codes (on assumption that documents are no longer all printed, may files are “e-documents” only.
Office 2016 does not properly use Windows 10 Application title bar color selection https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/15476307-office-2016-does-not-properly-use-windows-10-appic
Reinstatement of the option to Pin Folders at:https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12582018-restore-pinned-folders-in-save-options-in-all-offi
Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Oct 14 2016
38 votes
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha
543 vote
https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b
Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action) – Excel Done in October 2016 YAY!
QAT buttons not showing custom imageshttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12512571-qat-buttons-not-showing-custom-images
Bring back Picture Manger to the Office 2016 Bundlehttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12498702-bring-picture-manager-back-to-office-bundle ****As of Oct 1 2016 there are 226 votes
115 Bring Picture Manager back to Office
bundle
057
Unhappy about Microsoft Office Picture Manager
being removed from the Office Suite.
031
Totally stinks that Office Picture Manager
was removed! Why? So many of us are heavy photo users and used that as a key feature of Office
007
Please bring back Microsoft Picture Manager
for use on Windows 10 (Office 2016)!
006
bring back office picture manager right away.
005
MS Picture Manager is missing from Office 2013
002
[Bring back MS Picture Manager! It was just right
001
Bring back MS Office Picture Manager
001
Please bring back the good old picture manager.
Known from Office 2003 up to Office 2010.
001
Make Picture Manager available on Office 2013
Onedrive -
put somewhere to see how much space I've used and how much I have****https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/7760340-put-somewhere-to-see-how-much-space-i-ve-used-and ****As of July 14, 2016, on only just the first 3 search result pages on “much” 75 Votes total
30 votes put somewhere
to see how much space I've used and how much I have
4 vote Show how much storage left
and used
9 votes Show how much
storage is left on the OneDrive app
1 votes to tell me how much space is
left
1 votes Ensure how
much space available is clearly shown in realtime
6 votes it will be
good to show how much space has been used and how much space is still available
2 votes t should be
available in the app how much free memory has been used, and how much still available.
1 votes add a space
bar! Not a space bar like the keyboard, but one that says how much space you've used and how much you have left!
5 votes would be nice
to see how much space I have available on my onedrive.
1 votes show how much
available space you have left and percentage left available
2 votes Add a feature
to tell the user how much space is left on OneDrive
2 votes Add remaining
space in hamburger menu, it's much easier to see it there.
1 votes SHOW ME HOW MUCH
SPACE I HAVE LEFT ON MY APP
1 votes can you make
it easier to see how much storage space remains?
1 votes Have a pie chart
telling you how much storage you have used
1 votes I think a feature
should be added to onedrive that tells you how much space you've used out of how much u have. EX 50.47mb/100.00gb
1 votes Have an easy
to find icon that shows the size capacity of the account and how much has been used
1 votes I hope you
will create an option to see how much space you have available from the phone.
1 votes very simple
just show how much storage is left as new files are uploaded to the cloud
2 votes data useage,
ie how much data have we used of cloud allowance and a start page to show that with quick links
1 votes I think there
needs to be a storage meter or something to tell people how much of their storage limit the have used
1 votes The app needs
a place that informs the user how much total storage space is being used (a feature of Dropbox).
Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10
(The matching UserVoice site has been discontinued by MS)
Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc
Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions
ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account.
386 votes
Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account
138 votes
Office 2016 Activation and installation without an
email account 172 votes
return to the same process for activating Office
2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts!
26 Votes
The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible
for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes
Activation without a live account.
7 votes
Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account!
6 votes
Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016
Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting
Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .
Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth
Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries- Marked as “under Review”, so there is some hope … <grin>
Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes
Include radial menu in desktop onenote
183 votes Bring back the
radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -
42 votes Bring
back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10
16 votes- Bring
back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App
25 votes- Keep
the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI
plus a bunch more pen requests
OFFICE- Get Back Older OneNote App with Radial Menu and Document Scanning / OneNoteMX / OneNote MXhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP5Y0c7-Qvg
Note: Click on “Show More” in the YouTube description to see the OneDrive download link!
The “Setup.bat” file uses PowerShell to “sideload” OneNote MX.
Download and install desktop OneNote http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2016-onenote/does-anyone-have-a-link-to-enable-me-to-download/a96d5463-3f5c-44df-8f5b-fa5c10257e54 ****The download link:
https://www.onenote.com/download
Ignore the misleading message "OneNote is already installed on Windows 10" and click the right link to the desktop version
Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20
Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016
Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update
Add Power Pivot back to Access (and to Excel in all bundles)https://access.uservoice.com/forums/319956-access-desktop/suggestions/10284183-add-pivot-charts-back-to-access
Add BI/Power Pivot back to Excel in all bundles -https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9018823-make-the-power-bi-family-Power
Pivot-Power Query
'Worksheet' Tabs to Wordhttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10024812--worksheet-tabs-to-word
UserVoice submissions I’ve Followed that have been acted on.
Pin pinning recent files no longer sorts alphabetically
https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b
544 votes – Was rolled out in July, then rolled back, is supposed to roll out again in October.
Back out change to make pen Ink default
MS Is working on this issue ****341 total votes as of Feb 26, 2016 – Mar 2016 MS pushed out a Windows Update to at least partially fix the problem
30 votes -
https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12473571-have-some-way-to-turn-inking-off-for-machines-usin
Office in General
52 voteTo
using Surface Pro 4 Pen as a mouse in PowerPoint 2016 instead of inking -
PowerPoint
106 vote
Use the pen as a mouse-
Word
153 vote
let
pen usage toggle between inking and pointer -
Excel
Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules – Brought back for Office 365 Subscribers only in Aug 2016 https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that
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