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Can't open document shared with me in Word desktop application
I have access to an organisation's SharePoint Online environment via the partner access option. I can open Office documents in the browser, but when I try to open in the desktop applications, I just ...
Not true. That’s only if you don’t already have a license somewhere else :).
I just tried opening an Excel file shared via a user's OneDrive for Business site at the same tenant. This opened fine in the Excel desktop application.
I wonder if the behavior is different depending on whether the document is located in ODfB or a SharePoint site collection.
- Shouldn’t be they are technically the same. So you are a site collection admin on the site your trying to edit the files on?so if you navigate to the site and try to edit the files using excel / word from the site itself direct you cannot?