Good point, while you may get a suggestion that works, if you don't get your fix here, this forum isn't the best place to let MS know about the problem. Although there are some MS staffers monitoring the forum, the "important" ones are looking at 2 other
places.
One is the Win 10 "Feedback Hub" that Zahir suggested. The main disadvantage I see to using it that it is a "black hole". You submit your feedback and never hear back from MS.
The other option is the "UserVoice" forum. This is a collection of application specific subsites where users are encouraged to submit this type of bug report and to make "new feature requests". There are 2 advantages to submitting your problem there. First
is that other people are encouraged to "vote" and add comments to your suggestion. The second is that sometimes you actually get feedback from MS, in the form "status updates" and sometimes even comments ... Here is a wiki I've created listing all of the
UserVoice subsites I've "collected"
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows\_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f
And here are 2 specific links you could use:
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:
Solve the Word 365/2016 Slow Typing Issue 218 votes Mar 2017
Since Word 2016 was published, it has very serious performance issues on devices with high resolution displays like the Surface Book and Surface Pro. As soon as a document is longer than about 1000 words, there is a terrible typing lag, i.e. text appears on
screen much slower than you type.
The typing lag is particularly bad in tables and when markup mode is used.
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
Bring Back 2010 type full page text boundary / borders https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries
More themes – black theme – 234 votes as of Feb 19 2017
128 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10368345-bring-back-light-medium-gray-theme-colorsUnder Review Feb 2017Black has been released for 365 only. There is a registry hack one-time payment users can use to get it too.
056 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/271331-word-online/suggestions/16375699-more-themes
017 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/16099231-add-more-colour-themes-in-the-office-theme
015 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac/suggestions/9360309-darker-user-interface-dark-or-gray-themes-si
007 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9628239-make-a-public-api-for-application-window-color-th
006 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/14871372-black-background-white-text-for-writing-in-word
002 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9538263-inverse-page-colour
002 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/13573101--white-words-against-black-background-function-fo
001 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac/suggestions/15950899-with-black-text-on-white-text-selection-color-is
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
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