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Open files by default in Desktop or Browser or Teams
The release notes for version Version 2105 (Build 14026.20246) say: "User preference setting to open files by default in Desktop (or) Browser (or) Teams: Users can set their default preference as Bro...
Hi Chris70
The users do it in the desktop client > (...) Settings next to Avatar > General > Files (Scroll to bottom)
Best, Chris
Here we go
Edit an Office file in Teams (microsoft.com)
Before attempting to edit an Office file in its desktop app, make sure you've met these prerequisites:
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Be using the Teams desktop app for Windows or macOS
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Download the desktop apps for PowerPoint, Word, and Excel (Office version 16 or newer)
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP: I think I have all the prerequisites in your 31 May 02:24 msg, although I don't know what license our org has, and Word won't tell me afaict. Yet while I have Team's Files| "File open preference" set to "Always open Word...files in: Desktop app", a link in a chat msg to a Word doc stored on sharepoint still opens in a browser, not in the desktop app.
Yet another reason I find Teams to be broken. Another reason: I can't open that link by copy-pasting it into Word's File | Open dlg. The only way to open the doc in Word seems to be to memorize the relevant words of the link in the chat, and then track the doc down by clicking on "teams", finding the right team, and drilling down through the Files "tab" using those words I memorized. Worse, Teams doesn't have tabs in the way a browser does, so I can't switch back and forth between the chat msg and the files "tab" without losing the context. Someone at Microsoft's UI department seriously doesn't understand this task.
Yet another reason I find Teams to be broken. Another reason: I can't open that link by copy-pasting it into Word's File | Open dlg. The only way to open the doc in Word seems to be to memorize the relevant words of the link in the chat, and then track the doc down by clicking on "teams", finding the right team, and drilling down through the Files "tab" using those words I memorized. Worse, Teams doesn't have tabs in the way a browser does, so I can't switch back and forth between the chat msg and the files "tab" without losing the context. Someone at Microsoft's UI department seriously doesn't understand this task.