Open sharepoint hyperlinks directly in the desktop application.

Question

Hello.

They changed my work computer and now the hyperlinks don't work like before.

Before I had W10 and Office 2016 (I seem to remember). In Excel I have cells with hyperlinks to sharepoint links. When you clicked, the linked Excel or Word document would appear directly in the desktop application.

Now I have W11 and Office LTSC 2021. When I click on a hyperlink it takes me to the browser to download the file.

In this forum I found an option in which you can configure how to open the links, whether in the browser or in the desktop application. But I can't find this option in my Office.

Help!!

Answer 1

Hi @JOSE ANTONIO GIL SAEZ,

Please check the following settings to troubleshoot your problem:

1.Perhaps you have tried New Office Option for Link Handling (Open file links directly in Office desktop apps) or File Open Preferences (Open file links directly in Office desktop apps), but you can't see these feature.

These features are for M365 only, Office LTSC 2021 does not support this feature.

So, if you want these features to work, you can use M365.

If you are not comfortable changing the version of Office you are using, then we can constrain the SharePoint file link to open in the local application by trying to set the way SharePoint opens the file.

2.Please contact the administrator of the site where your SharePoint file is stored. Navigate to Site Settings > Site collection features >Active "Open Documents in Client Applications by Default".

3.If your SharePoint files are saved in a document library, then you can contact your site administrator to navigate to the document library where the files are saved >Library Settings > Advanced Settings> select "Open in the client application".

---

If the answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Answer 2

I'll check with my administrator of the site.

Thanks.