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The new/pre-release version of Outlook opens attachments (e.g. .docx, .xlsx) in Preview mode only. Besides first downloading the attachment and then opening it, is there a way to configure Outlook to open the associated desktop app when double-clicking the attachment, similar to the old Production release?
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Years this has been reported and no fix. I have Edge as my pdf viewer, but rather than launching the attachment in the default application, I must save it first, then open it. How ridiculous. Worse, the preview has no zoom so it's unreadable. Useless. How does this stuff get through QA?
I agree, this is an unnecessary complication, much better when attachements were opened not as a preview. MS: any plan to go back? an answer would be appreciated.
Reporting same issue here for New Outlook - functionality only allows for downloading as a file, then the user has to navigate to the file to open it. Very cumbersome when it used to just doubleclick and open in relevant app.
Specifically here is voicemail audio attachments needing to open in Media Player, instead of being saved and opened manually.
I switched back to the old version and I'll be staying there until this is resolved. I'm not sure why I would want to have a download step before actually being able to have a proper look at the attachment? The preview functionality is also extremely limited (at least for PDF:s which is the most common attachments for me), but even with more functionality to it, I would want to be able to get to the app of my choise immediately.
Having the same issue here. VERY frustrating. Web versions of office programs are truly awful.
Has anyone found a way to turn this off?