Here we will discuss how we can enable documents to open in the browser instead of opening in the client application in SharePoint Online. It may be any kind of documents like word, excel, PowerPoint, notepad, HTML files or pdf, etc.
As an end-user or SharePoint Power user, you might not like to open the document in a client application, sometimes a client application might not be installed in the machine, in those cases opening the document in the browser will be helpful.
Open documents in browser in SharePoint Online document library
To enable this option in the SharePoint document library, follow the below steps:
Open the SharePoint Online document library and then go to document library settings. In the document library settings click on “Advanced settings” which is under “General Settings”.
Then in the Advanced Settings page, go to “Opening Documents in the Browser” section and choose either “Open in the browser” or “Use the server default (Open in the browser)” option.
Then the documents will open in the browser instead of the client application in SharePoint.
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I hope this will be helpful to open SharePoint documents in the browser instead of asking to open in a client application.
Hello Everyone!! I am Bhawana a SharePoint MVP and having about 10+ years of SharePoint experience as well as in .Net technologies. I have worked in all the versions of SharePoint from wss to Office 365. I have good exposure in Customization and Migration using Nintex, Metalogix tools. Now exploring more in SharePoint 2016 🙂 Hope here I can contribute and share my knowledge to the fullest. As I believe “There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance”