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Brass Contributor

Aug 25, 2017

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Bypass the File Previewer in Modern Document Library

Hello Community, When click the filename in Modern Library, SharePoint will open this document in a previewer first and then you'll have options to choose either openning this file in browser/Off...

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jcgonzalezmartin
Aug 25, 2017
AFAIK, No

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Aug 25, 2017

AFAIK, No

Chung-Cheng Yu

Brass Contributor

Aug 25, 2017

Hello Juan,

Thank you for your reply. It would be great if Microsoft can have this feature down to the road. For users that are not so tech forward, it's not very intuitive for them to find that "Open" option on the command bar

Thought I can share this additional finding - When inserting a document library (using the Modern Document Libarary webpart) on a modern page, it doese bypass the previewer and open file directly.

Heiko Watz
Iron Contributor
Sep 08, 2017
There are a lot of thread about this and I hope Microsoft is doing something to make this better and listen to the users voice.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Open-PDF-documents-in-Client-Application/m-p/104093#M9617

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Preview-Feature-in-new-Library-experience/m-p/19443#M1686
- Chung-Cheng Yu
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 08, 2017
  Totally Agreed Heiko! That preview feature is troublesome especially when users try to open a large/oversize PDF. The preview panel freezes and sometime even causes your browser crush if it runs out memory...