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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...
Hi there
Yep this is one of our huge frustrations. The only way we’ve figured out is by these by above as mentioned and also two somewhat simpler methods:
1) Have the document open in the office application > File > then click under the Filename which is the location where the file is stored in SharePoint (see image attached) then click copy link to clipboard, paste the URL in an email and delete the last few characters “?web=1”
Anyone who clicks that link will open the document up in the respective office application if it is installed on the machine.
2) If you are using the classic view of the document library: Usinf IE11 browser highlight the name of the document and copy, paste in an email. This pastes the name of the document with the URL behind it which opens the file in the Office application.
(I’ve noticed this doesn’t work in Edge or in the modern library experience)
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Jess
Yep this is one of our huge frustrations. The only way we’ve figured out is by these by above as mentioned and also two somewhat simpler methods:
1) Have the document open in the office application > File > then click under the Filename which is the location where the file is stored in SharePoint (see image attached) then click copy link to clipboard, paste the URL in an email and delete the last few characters “?web=1”
Anyone who clicks that link will open the document up in the respective office application if it is installed on the machine.
2) If you are using the classic view of the document library: Usinf IE11 browser highlight the name of the document and copy, paste in an email. This pastes the name of the document with the URL behind it which opens the file in the Office application.
(I’ve noticed this doesn’t work in Edge or in the modern library experience)
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Jess