TUG Tip-- IT

TUG Tip - Information Technology / Microsoft SharePoint

Defaulting SharePoint Documents to Open in Client Application 

To default SharePoint to open documents in the client application instead of opening in the web browser, do the following: 1. Log in as company administrator 2. Open the Admin Center 3. Under Admin Center, go to SharePoint Admin Center 4. Click on Sites->Active Sites on the navigation bar on the left 5. Click the URL for the site to change this setting on 6. Click on Documents on the navigation bar on the left 7. Click on the settings gear in the upper right 8. Select Library Settings 9. Under General Settings, click Advanced Settings 10. Under Opening Documents in the Browser, select Open in the Client Application 11. Scroll to the bottom and click OK Exceptions to this setting: From SharePoint, if you go to the site and go to See All under the Documents section and browse to a document it will open by default in the client application on the user's computer, such as Word or Excel. However, if you are on the sites home page and click a file under the activity it will only open the file in the web browser. And if you are in OneDrive and click on Recent on the navigation on the left, this will default to opening in the web browser, but you can select the triple dots and choose Open->Open in (the client application).