Friday, November 21, 2014

OneDrive and Excel Online data loss

I think that around the time that I noticed that OneDrive's Excel Online finally got the ability to sum cells by mouse-selecting a range of cells, rather than manually specifying the range, that is when there were some hiccups at Microsoft and a day's worth of changes were lost.  Looking in the revision history of the file (File > Info > Previous Versions), there was not even a trace of any changes made on Nov 19, 2014.  So far this data loss appears to have only affected Excel Online and not OneNote, which I also frequently use.

I use Excel Online mainly for ease of use with my Windows Phone; many of my other are in Google Drive.  I hope the worthwhile changes Microsoft is making don't further adversely affect Excel Online.  So much for cloud backup.  Note, a quick search on Google and Twitter did NOT seem to indicate any problems with Excel Online.

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