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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.

Rest of teams is awesome.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature. Opening each document does not contribute to my productivity

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm also still looking for this functionality. I keep closing Teams by accident when I just want to close the document.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature. Opening the files in Teams by default triples my document opening time because I always have to wait for it to load before I can open it in the desktop app.

  • Luca commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Me too, to open the documents in Teams or Office online is not very user friendly.

    It would be good to get this option in MS Teams

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In the works for two years.... unbelievable. This software is such a half-baked mess, and apparently they're not even working on it.

    MS Teams: where GIFs are more important than core functionality.

  • Carsten Maßmann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This seems a very reasonnable request since the feature already exists in SharePoint online. There the owners can set the preference accordingly.

  • Ernst Beermann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Make it possible to change settings in Temas to start the program by user default. I can understand that MS want their other versions also to work/used by everyone on line. But for me Excel/Word local work better.

  • Brady M commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Don't ever want to see or edit Excel in a browser - limited functionality - too slow - does not let me use Excel features other thank what a novice user does.

    How hard is it understand that dumbed down versions of proven software like Excel are deal breakers?

    Microsoft product teams are like dealing with my kids when they were 14 and could not be brought into a polite conversation. At least my 14 year old kids grew up.

    Microsoft product teams seem to be stuck at the 14 year aged argumentative, head in the sand, crud mode for the last 10 years.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update other than "working on it" is better than no update to users for two years.
    You're better than this Microsoft!

  • Alan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Open Excel file in the Teams app is too slow. Other products, like browsers, already have this.

    Why can't teams just provide standard functionality built-in like other applications?

  • Scott D commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this? It is extremely frustrating to be constantly redirected to the less-useful (and slower) web versions of applications I already have installed on my system.

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