Naming a document in Office Online

Office Online is the web based versions of the common Office application like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are great productivity boasters in Office365 allowing most common document editing experiences to be performed within the browser without the need to download the actual document locally.

As a user you can create a new file directly within the browser from the ‘New’ menu item shortcuts on every document library.

In OneDrive for Business it looks like this.

In a team site it looks like this.

Lets look at an example when we click the ‘Word document’ from the OneDrive new menu.

It opens our new document in Word Online.

As we can see when we return to the OneDrive library our new document has been created but it has been called ‘Document1’.

So how can we rename it to something sensible?

We can do it via the Edit Properties menu

Change the file name in the edit form and click save.

This now shows the file updated.

There is an easier way.

Lets repeat the action from the new menu to get a new document. This gives us another ‘Document1’ Word document. So we should be able to switch into backstage to update the file info right…. By choosing ‘Save As’ and picking a filename.

Well no actually this doesn’t work in Office Online as it is clever enough to be already saving directly into the online library.

Clicking ‘Save’ tells you as much.

So how can we change the file name? Well its actually so simple when you know how.

Click the ‘Document1’ name in the header bar while editing the document. And simply overtype your desired name.

When you change it you can see the change back in the main library view.