To always open supported Office hyperlinks in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint desktop app instead of the browser, follow these steps: Open Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.

Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting to choose whether to open files in the online or desktop app, giving you full control for each file.

Open your first instance of Excel, and then right-click the Excel icon on the Desktop taskbar. Hold down the "Alt" key and select "Excel 2013" from the pop-up menu.