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Nov 29, 2017

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Links to Sharepoint documents set to download

Previously in Sharepoint (mere weeks ago), I was able to change links to Sharepoint documents to set to download, instead of having the document open in a browser. I would change the URL contai...

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Salvatore Biscari
Nov 29, 2017
In SPO you should now be able to download Office documents from inside the Office Online apps that open them.

Other documents can be downloaded directly and/or by using the apps that open them.

So, AFAIK, there is no need to change manually the URL.

Hope it helps...

Fernando_Chagas

Copper Contributor

Jul 15, 2020

I got the download link as following:

-right click in the document that is in the lybrary

-download

-then click in the 3 dots of the downloaded file

-click in: copy download link

FG_TFS

Brass Contributor

Oct 15, 2020

This does NOT look like Chrome - is it Edge?

MSUM_Clifferton
Brass Contributor
Oct 28, 2021
The URL i got from this process (copy download link) looks like this.

site url/_layouts/15/download.aspx?SourceURL=encoded url starting after sharepoint.com

Here's an example of an encoded URL that would work in the box above. It has a leading slash(%2F).
%2Fsites%2FSITE%2DNAME%2DWITH%2DSPACES%2FLIBRARY%2FFile%5FName%5FWith%5FUnderscores%2Ezip