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
shared this idea
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.
669 comments
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Leona
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There is no value at all in opening a file in teams. It means you cannot use chat or anything else while that file is open. Additionally, when you click open in App, it takes forever to load (even if the app is already open) and then you need to click multiple times to close the file in teams. Seriously Microsoft, this is a UX disaster
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Anonymous
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7000 votes since 2017 and Microsoft still hasn't changed anything?.... I think these suggestion forums are just here to make people feel heard. I've never seen any suggestions I've been a part of actually get rolled out.
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Andrew McCabe
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I am saving an Excel file to Teams that is Macro Enabled and by default the functionality of the file is unavailable ... it would be preferable to mark the inidividual file as read only and for launch in the desktop app on a file by file basis as new files are added ...
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Anonymous
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People STILLLLLLLLLLLLLL want this!
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Anonymous
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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.
===> Exactly what we need! I believe I would save 5 minutes per day with this feature. (And experience slightly less frustration).Many thanks to te devs, teams is a fantastic app!
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Anonymous
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Can we please have this feature
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Anonymous
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4 years. Let me guess its going to be in the Teams replacement.
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Anonymous
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What is the progress on this function? Please update us. There seems to be huge demand for this option.
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David
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It is a simple link... I would actually love to see your office and workday. What the heck are you guys doing all day?
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Steve Whistler
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I am really looking forward to this option. Many of the Excel workbooks I create are way beyond the dummy downed capabilities of Excel Online and people are always opening them with default and then questioning why they don't work properly. Couldn't happen soon enough!!
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Anonymous
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How is this still not available?
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Jan
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Please have such option available ...
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Brad
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What is the hold up with this? This is one of the major reasons why we have yet to migrate most of our files to Teams
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Anonymous
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Please add this functionality soon
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Emily
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Has this moved forward at all?
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Anonymous
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Please add this functionality ASAP, as it is tiresome to double-click on an attachment just to have it open in Teams, then I have to Close and Right Click and select Open IN Desktop App.
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Jordan
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The newest version now allows you to choose a default action, but "desktop app" is the only of the 3 which isn't in the list... why try to shoehorn everyone into the sub-par experience of a web app?
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Frank R.
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Though this functionality did already exists for a while - why has it been removed?
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Juan Pablo Giuttari
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Come on, it can't be too hard to implement this.
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Anonymous
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please make this available, users ask for it.