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dblemker
Feb 12, 2022Copper Contributor
Sharepoint differences in opening Excel files
I have an unusual issue and I'm not sure if it's a teams, sharepoint or Excel online issue. On our teams site, we have a sharepoint page with quicklinks. When we open Excel files on some of the quick...
dblemker
Feb 14, 2022Copper Contributor
DhirenMehtaMSFT Thank you for this. I thought you were on to something... but alas I don't think so. I'm going to try to share as much as I can about the files without violating our company policy with information sharing.
The Sharepoint page loading within teams as our "Main Menu" of sorts is made up of multiple web parts with quick links. I used the browser version of teams to get the links for you as you suggested. One section of the quick links opens an excel document as this: https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/xlsm/viewer/teams
The other part opens excel files as this: https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/tab::1a097827-23d1-4415-b11f-fca99483ccb4/General? (within continuing thread ID information that I can't paste without it renaming it).
The weird thing is, all files were added the same way: Add Link>Site or Add Link>From a Link. Both options respond the same way. But for some reason, the few files react differently and come up as the xlsm viewer. I don't know how to force it to load it that way. None of my elements are document web parts (that I know of). Everything is set up as quick links.
DhirenMehtaMSFT
Microsoft
Feb 14, 2022Thanks dblemker . Based on your response, I still feel that the First excel document that's opening up is Not Quick Link but without actually looking at it with screenshare, I don't have any other ideas to offer. Only other thing I can think of is you can edit the page in SPO site in browser, Delete the "non-working" quick link and re-add it to see if you are seeing any difference in behavior. Be sure to publish the page after the changes are done.
Can you open up a Support ticket with our Teams team so that Microsoft Support team can work on this with you?
- dblemkerFeb 14, 2022Copper Contributor
DhirenMehtaMSFT Thanks. I will see if I'm able to open a ticket. I created the sharepoint page and each section. They are all quicklinks added the same way. The two attachments here show each file (as quicklinks) all adding the same. One loads in the viewer, one loads the other way. I'm at a loss.
- dblemkerFeb 14, 2022Copper ContributorI think I might have it. The files that open full screen are xlsm files and the others are xlsx files. Let's see if that fixes it.
- DhirenMehtaMSFTFeb 14, 2022
Microsoft
Interesting. I just tested it and yup it is that. xlsm type files opens up with Viewer in Teams but XLSX files open in the SharePoint page. In my initial testing, I did test Quick links using XLSX and XLS extension types and saw the same results, so didn't think of asking the distinction but glad you caught it.