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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.
- What is even more odd is that our Mac users with the Business Prem license can do this. Windows users cannot.
