Microsoft OneDrive Frustrations

[scouser75]

I find Microsoft 365, in particular Excel, Word and Outlook fine. I don't use OneDrive and save to my iCloud Documents folder.

I've just begun trialing iCloud and the created and modified dates have worked as they should, Unfortunately, I've found that when I save a web page as a PDF document, it saves as some weird file with a ? symbol. Why would this happen?

I don't use it a lot, and do question the subscription, and now Apple have effectively done the same thing, albeit it's adobes creative studio and Microsoft 365 combined for Apple. I registered as a student, during my recovery from major surgery, and it's given me the opportunity to get the Creator product for the education price. Very tempted, although it means I'll have to move the few office files I have, to pages etc.

I wouldn't mind moving over to pages, but as I share Word documents with a lot of people who don't use Pages, would that cause an issue?

 

[Madonepro]

I've just begun trialing iCloud and the created and modified dates have worked as they should, Unfortunately, I've found that when I save a web page as a PDF document, it saves as some weird file with a ? symbol. Why would this happen?

Without seeing an image of it, hard to see the issue.

I wouldn't mind moving over to pages, but as I share Word documents with a lot of people who don't use Pages, would that cause an issue?

I downloaded and started using Pages the other day, and it doesn’t play nice with importing word documents. I had to do quite a bit of tidying up.
The layout of the app is awful, taking the ‘tools’ to the side, instead of the top, is ‘yuck.

 

[MacBH928]

if you hate someone, tell hime to use onedrive. I have no idea how people are paying for this . I went lunatic using it.

changed storage to Dropbox for MS Office documents, no issues so far.

It always baffles me why people try to use Microsoft apps on a Mac.

yea..about those international standard format for business and government work documents docx and xlsx...

 

[MacBH928]

I've just begun trialing iCloud and the created and modified dates have worked as they should, Unfortunately, I've found that when I save a web page as a PDF document, it saves as some weird file with a ? symbol. Why would this happen?

I wouldn't mind moving over to pages, but as I share Word documents with a lot of people who don't use Pages, would that cause an issue?

YES

if you want 99% consistency in design and format, you will have to use MS word for the most part. I will guess is your best case scenario is using OnlyOffice as its free and uses docx as its standard format.

if you want to just send them a file over you can always export to Word format in Pages but formatting wont be consistent

 

[scouser75]

Without seeing an image of it, hard to see the issue.


I downloaded and started using Pages the other day, and it doesn’t play nice with importing word documents. I had to do quite a bit of tidying up.
The layout of the app is awful, taking the ‘tools’ to the side, instead of the top, is ‘yuck.

I sorted the PDF issue. It seems that storing on icloud you must keep the PDF letters at the end of the file name. Whereas on One Drive you don't need to. I was rekabelling the PDF and omitting these 3 letters.

YES

if you want 99% consistency in design and format, you will have to use MS word for the most part. I will guess is your best case scenario is using OnlyOffice as its free and uses docx as its standard format.

if you want to just send them a file over you can always export to Word format in Pages but formatting wont be consistent

What a faff and such a shame the developers can't make the 2 play well together.

After your advice, I'm going to stick with Word but will play around with Pages.

 

[ThrowerGB]

I tried One Drive and found it only accepts MS type files. So I'm staying with iCloud.
Why?: I generally organize my files by subject, not by file type. One Drive won't let me organize the way I need to. Perhaps there's a way around this. For example, will One Drive accept aliases to non-MS files? I haven't tried that because I didn't want to spend time creating and moving the aliases to One Drive. Is there an any advantage to One Drive?

 

[boppin]

I tried One Drive and found it only accepts MS type fil

OneDrive accepting all file types.

 

[boppin]

if you want to just send them a file over you can always export to Word format in Pages but formatting wont be consistent

Better idea.

Send him the original file or just print it as PDF. Would be the best I think.

 

[ThrowerGB]

OneDrive accepting all file types.

That's progress. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[boppin]

That's progress. Thanks for letting me know.

I can save every file type here, except it violated the file naming rules of Windows I guess.

 

[MacBH928]

Better idea.

Send him the original file or just print it as PDF. Would be the best I think.

not when you want an editable version or for collaborating

 

[grazanaut]

If collaboration and modification date tracking (or versioning) is what you need, and you only have relatively simple requirements for word processor features, Google Docs is ok, does a good job of writing to DOCX format (though as with LibreOffice and other 3rd party word processors, reading docx can be problematic with regard to formatting).

Even better than GDocs, for collaboration and versioning but only if you can get away with the most basic of word-processing/formatting features, would be to use github or bitbucket (with or without a git client) and use Markdown file format. Importing from word is simpler in some aspects, because you are going to be radically simplifying formatting anyway.

 

[eve-ate-it]

Stick with icloud. no problems here. M$ is the devil!