Add hyperlink or button to open document in client application

Good day.
I have SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps 2013 integrated with it.
I configured the default behavior when clicking on a document in a document library to open it in web app.
And I want additionally to have column in this library with hyperlink or button to open document in client application.
I can click on menu near document name with WAC preview and then click "change" button. But in this case I make 2 clicks. So I want to have this "change" button as a column in the list of document library.
How can I do it?

Hi, Daniel.
I successfully created rich
text type column - richtextcolumn.
Then I created workflow associated with documents library and added action to set field in current element
- it sets richtextcolumn with value you wrote - "<a class="ms-listlink ms-draggable"
onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3','1','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','1','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')" href="[%Current
Item: Server Relative URL%]" DragId="7">test</a> .".
I configured this workflow to run on element creating and editing.
Then I upload a document and see link to this document appearing in richtextcolumn.
But when I click this link it just download document and then open it in client application. So if I change something in this document and try to save it, it will be saved in my local download folder and not sharepoint.

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