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Iron Contributor

Oct 07, 2016

Preview Feature in new Library experience

Hello SharePointer, we have a problem with the new Library experience and the newly integrated viewer. In the old experience when you click on a .pdf or a .msg file it opens the pdf with the ...

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Pieter Veenstra

MVP

Oct 07, 2016

Hi Heiko Watz,

Interesting issue. In Chrome I have found a workaround.

1. Download the .msg file.

2. On the downloaded document click in the menu and select always open files of this type.

Done!

If you now click on download when you want to open a .msg file in outlook then it will appear straight away in outlook rather than the intermediate download dialog.

Heiko Watz

Iron Contributor

Oct 19, 2016

Hi Pieter Veenstra,

Thank you for this tip.

But this is not the way we want to work.

In your solution the file is downloaded and stored in the default download folder an has to be deletes there manually L

This is not so nice.

There is also a Problem with PDF Files… they are also visible in this new preview Window and when you want to edit the file you have also download it, make you changes (as example we add a signature it) and then you have to upload it.

This is also very bad and the people has problems to do their work.