MS Doc Link

Handle MS Office Document links in a better way
What is MS Doc Link?
'MS Doc Link' is a versatile Chrome extension designed to boost the management of Microsoft Office document links. It offers several actions including opening online, in edit mode or protected mode, downloading the file and more, all at a click. You can personalize left mouse click actions on document links as per your convenience. This tool provides link history, clipboard action customization, creating favourites from history, and grants access to a history of the last 20 entries. A significant feature is storage sync to Google account while keeping history/favorites confined to local storage.

Extension stats

By: stocki87
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.86 (7)
Version: 1.3.1 (Last updated: 2019-08-21)
Creation date: 2019-08-21
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • *://*/*
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • background
  • unlimitedStorage
  • storage
Size: 503.81K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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This Extension provides several options for handling/opening Microsoft Office Documents. In the default mode you can only open the documents via opening the context menu on a hyperlink on a web page, which points to either a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Visio file.

You can however use several other options via the Extension menu (click on the icon)

The usable options are the following: => activate a link history Each time a document link is opened a history entry is created. (The history can be accessed via the extension menu or via the context menu action)

=> Choose a custom action for a left mouse click on a document link

  • Open online
  • Open in protected mode (Desktop application)
  • Open in edit mode (Desktop application)
  • Download file
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User reviews

This is so great I can finally somewhat force Edge to open Office documents from SharePoint etc, in a desktop app! :-) Finally i can avoid the webapps, much easier,, why does Microsoft "forces" us to use the watered down web apps, they suck in comparisons with the desktop apps.
by Sipke Sangers, 2023-10-13

Either this extension does not work or it does not work with DropBox !?
by Alain Boucher, 2022-02-24

fixed my sharepoint search page!
by serhiy, 2019-11-27
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Extension safety

Risk impact

MS Doc Link requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

MS Doc Link has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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