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Creating a shareable document link that forces a document to open in Office for desktop, not Online?
SharePoint Online has a feature you can enable where a document will open on the user's client when they select it from a document library, as opposed to Office Online. The problem is that if you...
So, this is kind of tricky. It depends. You can force a download by putting &download=1 at the end of the URL, but that will only open their own copy. If you want to have single source of truth and them edit a shared location with their desktop client then you'll have to get the original URL. Basically what I do is navigate to the folder where the file is. Copy the URL from the browser url bar, then add in the name of the file at the end. Need to add %20 for spaces, but this will get a direct link to the file which should respect the document library setting.