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Gunnar-Haslinger
Dec 20, 2019Steel Contributor
Open Word/Excel Documents directly instead of Downloading - Undo Selection not available
To configure EdgeChromium to open for example Word, Excel ... documents directly instead of downloading them, there is an Option to click "..." => "Always open Files of this type"
After checking this Option .docx Files open directly instead of downloading.
But now there seems to be no GUI-Option to undo this selection.
In edge://prefs-internals/ it can be found as "extensions_to_open": "docx",
But how can a user without editing the JSON-Settings-File undo this behaviour?
- Jake-EakinCopper Contributor
Gunnar-Haslinger On your computer right click a docx file and select open with, select the program you want and check "Always open with this program"
- Gunnar-HaslingerSteel ContributorJake-Eakin my post is 2,5 years old. As you can see in the other 8 Answers there wasn't an option to undo this setting until Edge v85. So today it is solved with current Edge Versions.
btw: Your proposed solution "right click in explorer on .docx" has nothing to do with this Edge-Setting, that's a totally other topic.
- stesch79Iron Contributor
Any reply from the product group to this question? I also look forward for a solution as deleting the whole preferences file could not be the solution.