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Set preference of opening in Office Online or Office App
We would like to see some kind of preference that a user can set to open files from SharePoint directely in the Office Apps instead of Office Online when clicking on them. This saves an extra click, ...
- On the Document Library Settings page, choose Advanced settings.
On the Advanced Settings page, in Opening Document in the Browser, select one of the following options:
Open in the client application When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open in the corresponding client application if it's available.
Open in the browser When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open in the web browser in the web app for that document type. When the document is opened in the web app, the user can then decide to open the document in the client application.
Use the server default When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open by using the default open behavior specified for the server
I have educated my users to right-click on the file, select OPEN, select OPEN IN APP. While not perfect, it is a work-around that I am OK with. Or I have users navigate from the desktop app (excel etc), using recent, or drilling into the SP site to retrieve and save their file.
