How: Go to the library, folder or file and check and adjust the permissions. Make sure only those people who really need to edit the file can do that. So more than ever before, prevention is key! Here are a few ideas to prevent and remediate incorrectly overwritten (Excel) files – pick the option(s) that suit your situation best: 1. We can only restore the full site collection… This is a major annoyance, as we can not restore a single file from Office365. Perhaps it is the “autosave” option when you are in Edit mode, so your changes are saved, even if you do not intend to? In my experience, an Excel Online file ALWAYS opens in Read-mode. I do not quite get how that has happened, as Excel Online files always open in read mode (in Internet Explorer and Edge, in any case, and only very few people have another browser) and you have to specify whether you want to edit in Browser or in Client.īut it has happened more than once, also with people who are quite SharePoint-savvy, so I guess it is a thing. I hope Microsoft will wait a bit before rolling that out for SharePoint as, since moving to SharePoint Online, we have had a number of incidents where users have inadvertently overwritten or otherwise messed up a shared Excel Online file, resulting in incorrect data. One of the myriad changes announced at MSIgnite was the mention that all files in OneDrive will soon open in edit mode directly, so you can work faster.
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