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When users double-click on this Title column, the document opens up if it is a Word or Excel document, but PDF files do not open. You can just click-and-click-and-click and nothing happens. The situation is the same with the “Type (icon linked to document)” column.
My organization is using SharePoint Online. We have several Document Libraries, that contain a variety of file types (Word, Excel, PDF mostly). Users have been trained to double-click the Title column to open documents, but this isn’t working for all file types.
Why are PDF files not opening in IE 11?
For PDF files, they are not Office documents. So, the open behavior is depended on the experience of the document library and browser. When we click that PDF file in IE 11, the browser will open it in a tab as a preview version.
How to open a PDF in Adobe Reader?
Users can view PDFs many other ways, but not by double-clicking on the Title. For instance, if the user searches for the doc through the site search center, they are able to click that and the PDF will open in Adobe Reader, but when they go directly to the Document Library they aren’t able to open it.
When you link to those documents using the Quick Links webpart and the site opens them using the SharePoint pdf viewer, the viewer puts its own toolbar up. One of the options on that toolbar is a “close” cross.
Can you open a PDF in a web browser?
We have a pdf with many hyperlinks to other documents on the SharePoint site. When the pdf is opened in a web browser all the hyperlinks work correctly. If anyone is curious how to make the hyperlinks fail in the SharePoint viewer here is what we did.
How to print a PDF in SharePoint browser?
It does not print a PDF. Instead, clicking Print just opens the PDF again in the SharePoint PDF viewer on a new browser tab and does not bring up the print dialog. As a workaround the user has to click “Version History” from the SharePoint PDF viewer and then select the latest version.