{"id":5217,"date":"2019-05-06T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2019-05-06T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:53:15","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-open-teams-files-directly-from-office-365-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5217","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can open Teams files directly from Office 365 Applications?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While you can<\/em> go into a channel, select the files tab, and open a file from within Teams \u2026 that\u2019s a lot of clicking just to open a file in another program. But you can open files stored in Teams (or any other SharePoint document repository) directly from Office 365 programs. How?<\/p>\n

Open an Office 365 program \u2013 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio. Click on the \u201cFile\u201d ribbon bar and select \u201cOpen\u201d. SharePoint Online document repositories, including those used by Teams, are listed under \u201cSites \u2013 Windstream Communic\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

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You may already have SharePoint sites listed. To add a new site, you just have to follow it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Select the SharePoint site that matches your Team name. Click \u201cDocuments\u201d<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll see a folder for each channel in your Team. Click the channel where the file is saved.<\/p>\n

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Navigate to the folder where your file is stored, then select the file. It will open directly in the application. When you save the document, the SharePoint document is updated.<\/p>\n

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Tip: Frequently used documents can be pinned<\/em> for quick access. After you have opened the file, it will appear in the most recently used list. Click the little push-pin next to the file and it will be pinned to the top of the recently used file list. The Excel files and Word documents that I use frequently can now be opened without navigating through the file structure to find<\/em> them.<\/p>\n

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While you can go into a channel, select the files tab, and open a file from within Teams \u2026 that\u2019s a lot of clicking just to open a file in another program. But you can open files stored in Teams (or any other SharePoint document repository) directly from Office 365 programs. How? Open an Office …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,746,666,686,747],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-sharepoint","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams","tag-sharepoint-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}