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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.
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....
- It's not only annoying but completely unacceptable!! I can't fathom how Microsoft can justify that only people with Office Enterprise are allowed to open by default with app. Makes 0 sense.
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- As already stated multiple times in this thread: It does NOT help enabling public preview. Please do not state that "it will 100% be there" when this is not true.
Running latest public preview version or the latest standard release does not enable the option to choose desktop.
It's mind boggling why Microsoft doesn't fix such a blatant error that has such a high impact on usability. It is one of the main complaints from our employees when using teams that they have to go through multiple steps just to open a document.
- This is working for me for Word and power point from a Teams chat file! So great!
I am also using Tasks by Planner and Todo inside of Teams, but this setting doesn't seem to work from there. Any ideas when it will be added? This is such a timesaver. - No, no option for desktop app in the Teams app, only Teams and Browser.
- 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.
- But that is not how it is on any installations in our office. We have the browser and teams option as in the right picture when using the desktop app. This is true both for current release and preview versions of the teams client.
