Prevent documents from opening in the browser from SharePoint 2013

I recently had a SharePoint document library that housed Excel files. The browser would try to open the file in a tab in the browser itself. However, an error would occur with the services that allow this to happen. So I decided to tell SharePoint that when a file is clicked on, open it using the client software if it is available. To do this, go to the library in question, and click Library Settings. Choose Advanced Settings and set "Opening Documents in the Browser" to "Open in the client application".