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It would be great if Teams would have the ability to always launch the desktop app when opening Office documents as opposed to launching the online version.

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  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When a file includes macro it will not work in online. And when editing online we get a copy of the file (without macro) with extension "- Editable.xlsm" ?? This is a complete mess!

  • MikeM commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I REALLY hope a fixed is announced at Ignite this year! The inability to open Office doc's in the desktop app makes deploying Teams company-wide impractical!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I echo the pleas below. Word Online screws up our table formats, even when you then open in Word proper. Teams is great in most other aspects, but this format loss is driving us nuts.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Is there any update on this. It would be great to have office doc's open in the desktop app not with in Teams. This should be a configurable option.
    Is there a reg key to do this???

    Pleas emake this work as it is killing Teams...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    as per all the other Posts we have this issue as well. Seeing as VBA code and Macro's don't run in web app we are faced with users being irritated in having to ensure that they go through the long steps of opening in desktop app to get the spreadsheet to run. Often there are cases when this is forgotten and data is messed up. REALLY would love to hear if the feature to restrict opening in desktop app only for files is being worked on !!!!

  • Axel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So....
    @Anonymous, I would expect in this case that a hand-over to another @whoever should be shoen above....
    But maybe, my expectations for a proper communication are too high ;-(

  • Adriaan@han.nl commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Axel perhaps is @Warren not involved with Microsoft (Teams) any longer. The latest post from him I could find in UserVoice is from the 22th of October 2018. So….

  • Axel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Warren, it would be fine to have an update, at least every year ;-)

  • Marianne Husoy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a major pet peeve of many users within my organisation, too - I would expect this to be a very welcome feature to most users.

  • Mae Gerhart commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Maybe enable it on a user basis? I am an accountant I personally NEVER want to open Excel docs in the online version -- but other users do :-(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I work in an organisation that has implemented Teams and I honestly cannot name one person in my organisation who would prefer the online version of office to default instead of desktop. Online is slow,clunky and generally useless.

    Sort it out - please!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Nice (not) feedback for almost a year. Who is doing your communication strategy? Or is it a plan to ignore the users?

  • Jan Zidek commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow - request registered on Feb 20, 2017, with 806 votes (as of 03.06.2019) and still not done... Damned be my company that they force us using Teams :(

  • Nick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd also like to vote for this improvement. As I see, users have been waiting for a while but it's still the same. Opening files online is the most annoying feature for me in Teams despite many other benefits.

  • Amanda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My CIO says he likes Teams but doesn't want to use it as its too hard to open a file in the desktop app. This annoying behaviour is not helping to drive adoption of Teams

  • Jonas Bøhmer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please update us @Warren. It's been a full year.

    Pretty much all complaints i hear are related to missing shortcuts. Teams differ from Online differs from desktop. While this is the case it's uncomfortable to use more than one option, and I don't know anyone to always be content without desktop, so here we are.

    So, when can we expect an improvement?

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