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Silver Contributor

Nov 02, 2018

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Link to "Edit In Word" Missing for some external users

When one of my clients shares documents with their external partners, the partners do not see the "Edit in Word" link in the Word Online command bar/ribbon. They can only use Word Online. The link s...

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StephenRice
Nov 05, 2018
Hi Dean_Gross,

Documentation is available here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new-in-sharing-in-targeted-release?redirectSourcePath=%252farticle%252fcc78357c-6d48-499c-9cc7-dae447d0d391

Thanks!

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Nov 02, 2018

This is expected behavior when using guest links. If they are full b2b users in your tenant from and invite and have 365 they get the edit link. If not and they use anon link or code access they cannot. Soon code sharing will be b2b so they can probabaly edit in client and OneDrive team is looking to make anyone with office have the option even with guest links but that is farther out.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Nov 05, 2018

ChrisWebbTechthanks, while that makes sense, I can't find any documentation describing this behavior. Have you seen any that I can share with a customer?

StephenRice
Microsoft
Nov 05, 2018
Hi Dean_Gross,

Documentation is available here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new-in-sharing-in-targeted-release?redirectSourcePath=%252farticle%252fcc78357c-6d48-499c-9cc7-dae447d0d391

Thanks!

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II
- Dean_Gross
  Silver Contributor
  Nov 06, 2018
  StephenRicethanks for the link to some documentation, but when I read that page, I do not see any discussion about the functionality to edit files that is enabled/disabled for guest users.
  
  Is the statement "Can user other Office 365 apps" supposed to be telling me that they cannot use the desktop apps? if so, that is very cryptic and could use some elaboration to make it more clear. It would also be helpful if the documentation at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-sharepoint-files-or-folders-1fe37332-0f9a-4719-970e-d2578da4941c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US was updated to describe this functionality that was deployed over 10 months ago..
- ChrisWebbTech
  MVP
  Nov 05, 2018
  Thanks Stephen, “specific users” will soon create guest accounts so that method will be able to be used for editing in office clients I believe once it goes live.