How do we configure Word and/or SPO to always view SharePoint Properties when opening documents from a SharePoint Document Library?  This was the default behavior in SPS 2016, but in SPO, any Word document that is opened in the desktop application has to have the Properties enabled by clicking ‘View’ followed by the ‘Properties’ button (in the SharePoint section).   it seems like if you use metadata in your SharePoint Document Library, you’d want to view that metadata by default, and not have to manually click through extra steps to view it after each file opening.  

​How do we configure Word and/or SPO to always view SharePoint Properties when opening documents from a SharePoint Document Library?  This was the default behavior in SPS 2016, but in SPO, any Word document that is opened in the desktop application has to have the Properties enabled by clicking ‘View’ followed by the ‘Properties’ button (in the SharePoint section).   it seems like if you use metadata in your SharePoint Document Library, you’d want to view that metadata by default, and not have to manually click through extra steps to view it after each file opening.    Read More

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