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New Teams Bug - Open file using "Open in App"
When using the New Teams and opening files using the "Open in app" option, the taskbar in Windows 11 does not create a separate task bar icon. For example, when I open a Word file in Teams, it treats...
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We are actively working on this issue. We are expecting the fix to be available by end on this quarter (end of March'24).
Tristan999 & jhassallclarke - you may or may not have discovered this by now, but posting in case it helps yourselves or others. A workaround to this I have found is to change the New Teams Settings > Files and links > File open preference settings and choosing to always use Desktop App to open files instead of in Teams itself. Then all word docs opened display as you would expect on the taskbar as stacked under the Word icon and not Teams. Not what everyone might want I appreciate, but for me I find it preferable.
I found another workaround, if you open the Word app first, and then open a document using the "Open with app" option in New Teams, Word gets its own spot on the taskbar.