Open in Word/Excel/PowerPoint as Default
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.
Rest of teams is awesome.
Jannie van der Walt
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Thank you for your continued feedback. The feature team is actively working on this feature as well as doing work to give users the choice to open Word/Excel/PowerPoint files by default in Browser, Office app or inside the Teams app. We will share an update here as soon as one is available.
576 comments
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Anonymous
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Is there any update regarding this?
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Anonymous
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Yes please make this functionality available. It's indeed really anoying.
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Henk Giesbertz
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Please have this option available, it is soo annoying to 'preview' files every time as I want to edit them in a proper app with all functionality...
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Anonymous
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Provide a setting to turn off, for those who don't
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John
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Please do add this choice at least as an option before opening a file, but preferably as a default setting.
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Anonymous
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Yes I want this, and an easy way to add a desktop shortcut
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Rick French
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Yes please!!! this would be an awesome enhancement. and yes... Teams really is awesome, you've done a great job enabling the remote work force. thank you!
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Anonymous
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I also would like to be have the option to make desktop app the default way of opening any Office files available in Teams.
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Anonymous
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make the desktop app the default way of opening any files available in Teams
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Chris Leiker
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Please add the ability to configure the default document app behavior. Opening it in teams is not our preferred method because it takes over the Teams base client and prevents you from collaborating as effectively.
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Martin Drenth | Flores.nl
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Please please please implement this! I have so many users that don't understand the Browser versions of Office... And then we have to tell them: "Click the button 'Open in Desktop app'"...very annoying
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ed
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yes - it would be fantastic for TEAMs to allow you to decide which you want as the default behavior, not be stuck with what MS thinks the default behavior should be as everyone has different desires and needs....for me the open in teams just causes frustration and too many extra clicks all the time
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James
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The worst part is that, when opening a doc link in chat, I cannot chat until I tab away from (and thus close) the document.
This means I can't chat about the document I just opened.
It actually hinders collaboration rather than enabling it.
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PC
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I'd like the ability for each user to select what the default is. Most my users like to open collaborated documents in a browser window while others would rather use the desktop app. NO ONE likes to open docs the Teams window as it halts the application's default function.
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Anonymous
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Please make this a priority. It is very frustrating to click on a file and have it open in Teams with the very limited functionality compared to the primary app...
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Colin
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Please make this a priority. It is very frustrating to click on a file and have it open in Teams with the very limited functionality compared to the primary app...
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Naga
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yes, it would be nice to have control over what is the default behavior when opening the office files in Teams. we know we can control this in the SharePoint library.
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Nuno Pereira
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Just started to use Teams, and the absence of this choice is almost making me not use it again...
Hope you make it a priority,as it shouldn't be that hard. The options is already there, it is just a matter of making the priority configurable. -
Anonymous
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Yes this would be great - I have been trying to find out how to do it as I assumed this would be a standard feature!
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Nochoochoo
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How do I vote? Just add a comment that this is needed? Because it is.