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IngeborgHawighorst
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Feb 04, 2020

Edge ignores library setting to open documents in desktop app

One of my clients is using Edge and reports that where last week, Word and Excel files would open in the desktop app when clicked in a SharePoint library, they now open in the browser.   Is anyon...
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DavidMarron
Copper Contributor
May 29, 2020

Hello IngeborgHawighorst,

We're experincing the same behavior, the library setting works well when using IE11, but that configuration seems to be ignored when using new Edge browser.
Did you get any update regarding this?

Thanks! 

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