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Open files by default in Desktop or Browser or Teams
Hi Chris70
The users do it in the desktop client > (...) Settings next to Avatar > General > Files (Scroll to bottom)
Best, Chris
Gustav_S If you are using the desktop client you should see the choice of the Desktop app in addition to Teams and Browser. However if you are accessing Teams via the browser you only you see the option for Teams and Browser.
NikkiChapple_ I also have the desktop version installed and only see the Teams and Browser options, No option for App
- Hi,
If you can't see it yet,
1.) Try updating the Teams client
2.) If that doesn't work enable preview (public or developer). Note to enable public preview you/your admin will need to enable you to see the option in the Teams client. Once enabled in the TAC, go to (...) next to the avatar > about > public preview. It'll 100% be there in preview.
Best, Chris
Where exactly are these magical settings? Below is what I see when I select the gear/settings icon next to my avatar. May I add that this recent change to requiring users to select the option to work on the desktop is the most user-hostile, misbegotten change I've seen from Microsoft in my many years of suffering the products I pay so much to use.
Below is what I see in Teams. And yes, i find it quite annoying that, when working on Desktop, I still have to explicitely ask to open a file in a desktop app....
- This topic is not about how to open a document. This is about how to set a default app. It makes no sense that you can't choose desktop apps as default!! Why!!
- Hi the screen shots above show the options in the settings menu that allow you to select your default app for opening files.
