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Links to Excel documents on SharePoint are downloading instead of opening in app or browser
I was posting about this on a different thread but was asked to start a new feed (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/links-to-sharepoint-document-in-excel-opens-in-browser/td-p/183028#...
ShelliG_N Hi, Thanks for creating the new thread. I have tried to duplicate your experience of having the file download instead of opening in the desktop app, Excel in this case, but haven't been able to duplicate it.
I tried a link from an email message, which looked like this:
https://mySharePointSiteName/sites/Ops/Shared Documents/IT/SampleFileName.xlsx
and it opened in the Excel desktop app.
I'm sorry not to have any more suggestions. Perhaps if you are using the older version of Edge (pre-version 80) you might try the latest version? Hard to do if you don't control your IT environment.