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Learn How OneDrive Sync Works With Office 2016
For years, you have been able to sync your OneDrive (and SharePoint) documents to your PC, which lets you work on the go while still being able to collaborate with others in Office. This integration ...
Ivan54- my description wasn't clear...
What I mean is if you open the desktop version of Word (for example), and then open a file on your OneDrive - instead of using the version that is already cached on your PC - it will connect to the internet and download the file from OneDrive.
We can see that behavior in Fiddler traces.
We have many users in poorly connected locations, and would prefer to let the sync tool handle the upload/download behind the scenes as much as possible and let the users have the performance experience of working with the locally stored file.
Oh, yes you mean if you select Open from OneDrive/SharePoint, then yes it will open the web version. You'd actually have select the file from the Explorer Window to get the cached version. Now it Office would understand that there is a cached version of this, loading times would definitely improve.