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Set preference of opening in Office Online or Office App
- On the Document Library Settings page, choose Advanced settings.
On the Advanced Settings page, in Opening Document in the Browser, select one of the following options:
Open in the client application When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open in the corresponding client application if it's available.
Open in the browser When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open in the web browser in the web app for that document type. When the document is opened in the web app, the user can then decide to open the document in the client application.
Use the server default When a user chooses a document in this library, the document will open by using the default open behavior specified for the server
Ya'll got screwed here by Microsoft. there is no option. I checked everywhere. the options presented by others in this list, either do not work in Chrome, or they are only specific to admins of each sharepoint list, and nobody wants to force it on all users. this should be a user specific Microsoft Office setting... We are all stuck with the annoying extra two clicks. one to click dot dot dot.. one click to click "open with" one click open in app. **bleep** thats 3 clicks. Microsoft you plonkers. what the. good to see 293,000 others have come here looking for an answer too. some companies have no idea what their customers need.
For copied or shared links, Msft could fix this easily. Since links that start with the http protocol are going to open in your default browser, Msft could simply add an option to choose "open in app" to the various sharing functions, and format links to start with "ms-word:ofe|u|....". So a link would look like "ms-word:ofe|u|https://linkstuffhere".
Since Msft is unlikely to fix something users actually ask for, I suppose you could also generate this format yourself with a Flow, or a calculated column, or even rewrite web parts like quick links to do it using the SPFx framework.
