Open Office document directly in Office application

This policy setting allows you to choose whether Office documents located on web servers open directly in the registered application or through the web browser.

If you enable this policy setting, files will open directly in the associated Office application, bypassing the web browser.

If you disable this policy setting files will open through the web browser.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\common\internet
Value Nameopendirectlyinapp
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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