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How to Fully Replace OneDrive Sync with Teams Files
Which version of Office client do you have? It sounds like perhaps it's not the Office 365 Pro Plus version as that support co-editing, your 5 users can have the file open at the same time, each editing different parts of the documents. There is no reliance on OneDrive syncing a file down to their machine, it opens directly from the Cloud.
Teams acts as a browser to files, opening them in a version of the Office Web Apps. It also supports co-editing, so perhaps that's why you are finding it more useful than an older version of Office. You can go from Teams to 'open in browser' from the ... at the top right. Same experience and functionality, just in a browser window and not Teams.
You can't drag out of Teams as it's really a web app, the files aren't on your machine so can't be dragged into other applications. I would sync the folder to your device, and get folks to keep on this device before try to drop them into another fully client side application.
StevenC365 We have Microsoft 365 Apps for Business and all our users have Microsoft 365 Business Standard licenses.
Co-editing files only works with Office files. It doesn't work with pdf files.
I know we can't drag files out of Teams so what do customers do that use non-Microsoft applications, such as an ERP or Accounting system? We need those pdfs, which are stored in SharePoint, to be saved elsewhere. Downloading then using Windows Explorer is crazy.
"I would sync the folder to your device, and get folks to keep on this device before try to drop them into another fully client side application." We already do this with OneDrive and have done so for 3 years. It's buggy and stops working all of the time. Are you suggesting we have all of our accounting users use the same device?
luvsql this is a community forum of other users of Teams, I don't see why your need to start posting ALL CAPS and take an aggressive tone.
Godd luck with your issue.