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Force Office Files to Open in Desktop App (via link, from web parts.. in all cases)
I want to force Office files stored in SharePoint to open in the desktop app - NEVER in Office Online apps. I have configured the site and the Document Library but opening in the native app only seem...
After a lot of poking around , faffing and reading on forums etc I think I've found such a simple way to do it
Open file in app - file > Info> Copy path
Paste this link in to notepad or something similar and just remove ?web=1 from the end of the the link.
Now when you open the link (excluding ?web=1 at the end) it opens in the app and not the browser
Hope this helps others
Just tried the "Copy path" option and removing the "?web=1" in a word document that points to an Excel spreadsheet saved on our Sharepoint site and it still open it in a web page.
have you tried change 1 to 0 like "web=0"?
also adding ms-word:ofe|u| in front of your URI also works.
