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The company I work for is starting to use Office365 for business and is setting up SharePoint sites. &nbsp; They have standard templates for Word, PowerPoint and Excel which they have put into the documents library. &nbsp; However they are unhappy with the results of using the online office as it does not provide all the formatting options the client versions do. &nbsp;There is no issue when you open an existing document, &nbsp;I can force it to default to the client applications. &nbsp; However when you go to the Document library and create a new document from the New Drop down it opens in Word/Excel/PowerPoint online. &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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Is there a way to force it to use the client apps when creating a new document the same as for an existing document.
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The company I work for is starting to use Office365 for business and is setting up SharePoint sites.   They have standard templates for Word, PowerPoint and Excel which they have put into the documents library.   However they are unhappy with the results of using the online office as it does not provide all the formatting options the client versions do.  There is no issue when you open an existing document,  I can force it to default to the client applications.   However when you go to the Document library and create a new document from the New Drop down it opens in Word/Excel/PowerPoint online.    

Is there a way to force it to use the client apps when creating a new document the same as for an existing document.

Default to client apps when creating New Documents in Office 365 for business

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.

Microsoft SharePoint

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.