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To open this file in the Microsoft desktop app, you must prepend the URL with the Office URI scheme for the app you are using. You can also get the “path-based” file location in the desktop app by going to File and right-clicking a file or going to Info for the current file. Spaces in URLs must be replaced with %20.

You must use the OneDrive “path-based” link, which has this schema: This is an extra step, and you cannot use the OneDrive “ID-based” link. But now that Obsidian supports application URIs, you can create a link that will open the file in the Microsoft desktop app (I prefer this). This will open the file in the “online” app. The first option would be to use the file link from OneDrive. For those who have used Microsoft OneNote, you are familiar with this - you can view the static Excel or Word document in your note, but you need to double-click to open and edit. Since OneDrive embeds are not editable, you may want to open the file from Obsidian. The code can be copied directly into an Obsidian note and will render in preview mode.īut in OneDrive embeds, files are not editable.
