Students, faculty, and staff may change how the SharePoint website opens files. By default, the website will first try to open the file within the web browser. Users may change this setting so that SharePoint will instead defer to an application installed on their computer.
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Learn more about the “Open in app” function in the SharePoint - Open in app guide.
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At this time, changing the default action will only assist in opening Microsoft 365 files (Word, Excel, PPT, etc.). For non-365 files, users need to right click on the file and choose Open → Open in app. |
Set your default action
You must be a site owner to make this change.
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