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NiclasDahl
Aug 06, 2019Brass Contributor
Enable user specific preference for open documents in browser or desktop
Since there is a varying degree of acceptance (mostly negative) of the webversions of word, excel and powerpoint, at least in my organisations, it would be nice if it was possible to enable a user sp...
MagnusGoksoyrOLDProfile
Aug 06, 2019Bronze Contributor
NiclasDahl There is no way to set this pr user (at least not without any advanced scripting). I have also gotten this question many times and i always recommend the users to right-click on the filename and choose open in the client version. Often they get used to that very fast.
Regards, Magnus
NiclasDahl
Aug 06, 2019Brass Contributor
Thanks for your reply, that's my usual go to as well, I was just thinking that it would be a nice feature to have 🙂
- Aug 06, 2019Then you should go to SharePoint user voice, check if the idea is there and if not, just post it and in both cases vote for it so the SharePoint Team can evaluate to implement this feature in the future
- NiclasDahlAug 07, 2019Brass Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin lol, I actually thought that this was the place to post suggestions and ideas....
But I will post it to the right instance now 🙂