As per the subject line; neither Word nor Excel were recognised as standard apps for these file types and I had to do it manually (and against the advice that it wasn't known that these apps would open these files).
I have had to do this on more than one machine, both with Intel (i7) and Mac...
I run a small business with about ten team members and we recently switched from Dropbox to Microsoft 365 as we were eager to take advantage of Microsoft’s live collaboration tools in Word and Excel. We all use Macs.
We store our files on SharePoint sites, but sync those files locally to our...