Sean Wallbridge
Got SharePoint Enterprise and as such, Excel Services installed? Well, just like the Office Web Apps, Excel may be trying to open XLS/XLSX files in the browser. You can either turn off the default behavior to open in the browser in each Document Library but if there are a number of them or the client doesn’t want this at all, you can turn off the browser based default by doing the following:
- Go to the Site Collection Settings Page
- Activate the feature Open Documents in Client Applications by Default”
This didn’t work for me. Still tries to open files in the web browser.
I have an issue where .xlsx documents are opening within the web page, even though the doc library itself is set to use external applications. I went to the settings as defined above, but there was no feature available for Open Documents in Client Applications by Default.
Where does that come from?
I know this is a little bit late, but in case someone comes across…check if you have permissions for Client integration, and a 32-bit IE.
I think this is down to individual browser settings, as I have the same thing. Can open Word docs in Word, but Excel files want to open in the browser…the rest of my users can open in Excel!
I had the same issue, Came to find out that the end user was using IE 8 with 64-bit. Switched to IE 8 with 32-bit. Now the user was able to open Excel document from Sharepoint 2010 in Excel instead of IE. Success
I think Andrew is right on the mark.
Had a user today who was getting this same problem even though Collection Setting was correct.
Once I got them to try IE (instead of Chrome) it worked fine – so it might be a browser thing.
thank you
Is there a way to turn off (open in OWA) for a individual SharePoint list. My requirement is to open the list attachment (PDF) in client application not in word online.
Environment : Sp 2016