Users now have the option to choose where Office documents open by default, thanks to a recent update to Microsoft’s Office 365 Monthly Channel. Excel, Word and PowerPoint documents stored on OneDrive, SharePoint or Outlook can be changed by users to automatically open in their desktop app. There is no need to take any action if users want the files to be opened in the web application. We have mentioned below the steps to open files in desktop apps with Microsoft 365.
Steps to open files in desktop apps with Microsoft 365
Final Words
We hope you like our article on how to open files in desktop apps with Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 opens files in the environment you last saved them in and saves them by default in the environment you used to open them. When working in the Word for the desktop program, it doesn’t take much back and forth for you to realize that you’re actually working in Word for the web.
