You can open or check out a file from a SharePoint library from within your Microsoft 365 app. After you open a file from the library, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint also keep a link to that SharePoint location on the File tab under Recent Places. In your app, select File > Open. On the left, under the Open heading, select the entry in the list. More @Wikipedia
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