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Links to Sharepoint documents set to download
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...
Well, for some reason, now they work for me by appending &download=1 to the "short link." I tried it with a PPTX, and a ZIP file.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. I tried it now using a link from a SharePoint site, and I got a "This link has been removed" message page.
So, it worked from my OneDrive for Business, but not from a SharePoint Team site that allows external sharing. This isn't good. It's the latter scenario that we want to use more.
If your link is to a document you can do this. Remove everything after the document extension and add this ?web=0.
- Sadly no Chani
Also performance wise the platform is slow, I’m guessing because the file path is strewn with access rights. - Hi Chani,
Sadly no, I really hoped I could. That said I’m finding the speed of SP quite slow, I’m guessing it’s because of the permissions rather than anything else. Nicholas English Did you figure this out by any chance? I'm facing the same request from one of my clients and can't figure out how to make an external link downloadable
in the new SPO link to anyone URLS don't have a file extension -
Example https://deakin365.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/globalstudio/EbjPsUMCR3hAo51eXQ6e2WkBUVEQ92G_o_ASyRsQs0kizQ?web=0
vs
https://deakin365.sharepoint.com/:i:/s/globalstudio/EbjPsUMCR3hAo51eXQ6e2WkBUVEQ92G_o_ASyRsQs0kizQ?e=HeSmqO
