How to have SharePoint 2013 open Excel when opening an XLSX file?

Question

Hello,
I have SharePoint 2013 and Excel 2010 files in SharePoint.  When I click on the Excel file, it opens the Excel spreadsheet within the
browser, and does not open the Excel application.  I have to click a button to get SharePoint to open the file in Excel.
How can I change this for all users in a site collection, so when they click on the Excel file, Excel is opened with the file?
Paul

Answer 1

Hi Paul,
Do you have Office for Web Configured, if so you can override the behavior by using PowerShell Cmdlets -
New-SPWOPIBinding and
Set-SPWOPIBinding 
see here for more information
Set the default open behavior for browser-enabled documents (Office Web Apps when used with SharePoint 2013)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee837425(v=office.15).aspx
or activate Open Documents in Client Applications by Default in Site Settings->Site Collection Adminstration ->Site Collection Features
alternatively you can also run the below powershell cmdlet to activate the feature (from the above link)
for specific site collection
Enable-SPFeature 8A4B8DE2-6FD8-41e9-923C-C7C3C00F8295 -url <SiteCollURL>
for all site collection
Get-SPSite -limit ALL |foreach{ Enable-SPFeature 8A4B8DE2-6FD8-41e9-923C-C7C3C00F8295 -url $_.URL }
Hope this helps!
Ram - SharePoint Architect
Blog - SharePointDeveloper.in
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