Click on Default Apps from the left pane.
Here is how to change default apps for certain file types, and set Windows 10 file associations. In such cases, you can change the Windows 10 file association. But, it would not be the app you wanted to open the file with. Sometimes, Windows decides the apps by itself.
Related: How to Disable Auto update feature for Windows 10 Store Apps Change Windows 10 File AssociationsĪs we discussed, Windows 10 has associated each file type to certain apps. Your file will be opened now in the selected app and the app will also be set as the default for the file type from now on.
So if you need to open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file outside Teams, using its full desktop app: This is great for those one-off files that require the full desktop application. If you right-click a file in Teams and hover over Open, you’ll see you can choose to open that one file using the default or your preferred experience (Teams, app/desktop, or browser). How to open a file from Teams in the desktop/client app without changing default settings In this post, I’ll cover how to open a file in a different context (Teams, desktop app, or browser) for one-time needs as well as changing your default setting to force all files to open in the desktop version if you wish.
We can choose where to open a file before we even open it.
However, when dealing with complex files you may wish to change how files are opened to be able to utilize the full functionality of the desktop app instead. You can open files directly within Teams to have a single context in which you’re able to do your work.