Viewing and changing document library settings
We saw several list settings as part of the Viewing and changing list settings recipe in Chapter 4, Working with Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online. As mentioned earlier, libraries are an extension of lists, and hence these settings also inherently apply to libraries. They, however, also have a few additional settings of their own which are relevant to the way you work with files and documents.
We will look at some of these settings as part of this recipe. As an example, we will see how to change the default way that browser-enabled documents open. When you click a document within a library, the default setting results in the document opening in the browser. However, as described in the 'Viewing and editing documents in the browser' recipe, earlier in this chapter, the browser editing experience has its limitations. You may, therefore, require the documents in a particular library to open in the corresponding office clients...