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Teams document links only open in browser not in app
Hi Kamilla,
Sure I get you. AFAIK it's because sharing links no longer Teams based links, they are full SharePoint links because Teams has fully aligned to the SharePoint/OneDrive sharing experience. When you used to do sharing links, it was designed to go within Teams. A sharing link today will be something like 'https://yourdomain.sharepoint.com/:f:/r/sites/Name' which will automatically trigger to go via a browser session because SharePoint is browser based.
If this is something you want to see reintroduced I would personally raise a feedback uservoice at https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/
Hope that provides an answer to your question
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP do you know if there is any update on this front? This is a super annoying process. I just want to open an email link *from Teams* that notifies me a colleague has responded *in Teams* to open in the native desktop app, namely...."Microsoft Teams."
Progress on this front?
Agree – this is one of the most ANNOYING features in Teams when I just want a link that was provided to me take me to the correct folder in the native application.
Microsoft can we FIX THIS PROBLEM SOONER THAN LATER???
Sharepoint is already a mess to navigate…
Super frustrating. MS Word Links copied and sent in email for collaboration open in bowser, with no apparent way to open in the app. The browser does not format the document like the app and is not useable for collaboration. Biggest weakness I have found in TEAMs.
JBatVA In Outlook you can at least select the option to open these links in the app. Go to File --> Options --> Advanced --> File and broswer preferences. There you select "Open supported hyperlinks to Office files in Office desktop apps". Now you open the app instead of the weird browser version.
Sadly this only helps for links you receive in Outlook, and not all links (links to sharepoint it still opens in the browser instead of File Explorer).
