Forum Discussion
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#...
New company exact same issue THREE YEARS LATER.
The only way to email a link to an Excel document on a SharePoint site using Outlook and have it open in the native Excel application and not the browser and not download:
- Paste the link provided in SharePoint to your browser.
- Remove all the items in red
- Add all the part in Green
Without the green highlighted part added, the link downloads. (Note: that green added part does not work for everyone and did not work in Teams for me when I tried it in 2020 or today).
ShelliG_SW If you want to collaborate with your team on the same file, why not create Teams group right in the messenger. It's super easy for the team to access and when they open it from Teams it open in web format right from the Teams window. Just a work around we are using. Hope this helps!
