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Louise de Jager
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May 02, 2018

New External Sharing Experience

Good day I have shared a library in SharePoint online with an external user, the user logs in with his Microsoft account and can access the documents, however he can only open a document in the brow...
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Deleted
May 02, 2018

So what happens when he right clicks and tries Edit in Excel . Does it happen in all browsers? Any error screenshot will be helpful.

 

Thanks

  • Louise de Jager's avatar
    Louise de Jager
    Copper Contributor
    May 03, 2018
    Deleted wrote:

    So what happens when he right clicks and tries Edit in Excel . Does it happen in all browsers? Any error screenshot will be helpful.

     

    Thanks


    The option to edit in excel or word is not available, only option is to open online.

    trying to send snapshot, but for some or other reason we cannot log in this morning, as soon as I can will send snapshot

     

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      StephenRice
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      May 07, 2018

      Deleted is correct. The new secure external sharing flow currently does not allow support for opening the document in the Office clients. If you share a site or add the user to your organization via Azure B2B sharing, they will get a full guest account & be able to open in client. Thanks!

       

      Stephen Rice

      OneDrive Program Manager II

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