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Links to Excel documents on SharePoint are downloading instead of opening in app or browser
80Mark80 Thanks for checking. We just had Office 365 update and direct links in e-mails do look to be opening in the app now (YAY!) but tried the link in Teams again and it still downloads. PowerPoint file link in Teams downloaded also. Looks like Microsoft is "fixing" issues like this slowly, but surely.
We do not use the Edge browser, really and it looks like we have an older version (Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1098.0) but that is controlled by our IT department. Why would that have an impact?
ShelliG_N It probably won't have an effect on your issue, but that is the browser that I have been testing with--if you were using the older version of Edge, it might have different functionality, like downloading instead of opening a file.
Good luck.
80Mark80 Has anyone solved this mystery. I have tried all of the suggestions. I have a list created, and within the list, one of the columns is a hyperlink to an excel document. I am using Chrome. I did try switching by default browser to Edge, and the link still did not open in the desktop app. My site and library setting both open in the client application. Here are two different versions of my link. The names are changed for security purposes.
/:x:/s/GeneralLedger/ERCDbES6nmxIlrhiu8bJ1ywBd_toWexQAmV2AUwwk-F2aw? https://jobll.sharepoint.com/sites/GeneralLedger/Lists/GL%20Leads/AllItems.aspx
