{"id":117,"date":"2015-03-16T04:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T17:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=117"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:45","slug":"excel-spreadsheet-downloads-instead-of-opening-with-excel-online","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/excel-spreadsheet-downloads-instead-of-opening-with-excel-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Spreadsheet downloads instead of opening with Excel Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Symptom<\/h3>\n<p>You upload an excel spreadsheet to your One Drive for Business folder to enable viewing and editing from Excel Online. \u00a0When you click on the file it downloads to your computer instead of opening up automatically in Excel Online. \u00a0On closer inspection you may notice that the excel icon is slightly different to the other excel spreadsheets in your account.<\/p>\n<h3>Reason<\/h3>\n<p>The file has been created in an older excel version as a .XLS file instead of a .XLSX file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/XLS-vs-XLSX.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/XLS-vs-XLSX.jpg\" alt=\"XLS-vs-XLSX\" width=\"363\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Resolution<\/h3>\n<p>Download the file to your computer, open with Excel and save as a XLSX file before uploading back to One Drive for Business.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptom You upload an excel spreadsheet to your One Drive for Business folder to enable viewing and editing from Excel Online. \u00a0When you click on the file it downloads to your computer instead of opening up automatically in Excel Online. \u00a0On closer inspection you may notice that the excel icon is slightly different to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[7],"article-tag":[42,43,44],"class_list":["post-117","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-office-365","article-tag-excel-online","article-tag-xls","article-tag-xlsx"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":5,"sum_votes":19},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}