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Gunnar-Haslinger's avatar
Gunnar-Haslinger
Steel Contributor
Dec 20, 2019

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-Eakin's avatar
    Jake-Eakin
    Copper 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-Haslinger's avatar
      Gunnar-Haslinger
      Steel Contributor
      Jake-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.
  • stesch79's avatar
    stesch79
    Iron 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.

      • DavidGB's avatar
        DavidGB
        Steel Contributor

        stesch79 

         

        After you have set at least one file type to open automatically, in Settings>Downloads a 'File types which are opened automatically after downloading' entry appears which you can use to clear the option.

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