Excel files download instead of opening in Excel online

Question

_{Friday, January 22, 2016 2:27 AM}

Hi,

Some of my users uploaded some .xls files to OneDrive. I am trying to open them in the Excel web app in office 365 for editing, but it keeps downloading to my computer instead which is NOT what I need it to do.

Please advise how to change this setting?

Thank you.

All replies (2)

_{Monday, January 25, 2016 8:30 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

If you try an .xlsx file, I think it should work fine.

Based on my knowledge, it seems to be by design. We can open .xlsx files in Excel Online but not .xls.

Similar questions have been asked before, see:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/153/t/403938

As this feature is provided by Office 365, you can confirm it in this forum:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f

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Melon Chen
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_{Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:06 PM}

Thank you - this is exactly the question I had and it is indeed the problem. Xlsx files only it turns out.