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So, I was reading through a list of options in Japanese when I saw
"SharePointで開く." My initial reaction was to read it as あく but it felt wrong
and thought that maybe it was ひらく. I checked this
[link](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6449/%E3%81%B2%E3%82%89%E3%81%8F-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%98%E3%82%8B-vs-%E3%81%82%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B-%E3%81%97%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B)
and it said that あく is intransitive but ひらく can be both transitive and
intransitive.

In the end, I decided that it should be read as ひらく because although there was
no を to tell that the verb was transitive, I think it was already obvious from
the context that it meant [フォルダを]SharePointで開く which means that あく wouldn't
work in this case.

Is my line of reasoning correct? Or can this be read as あく (given the absence
of を)?

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Reading 開く in SharePointで開く
Your reasoning is perfectly correct. It's "SharePointで開く【ひらく】". Even in
English, this can be said without explicitly mentioning the object, like "Open
with SharePoint".
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You have an object in your sentence (i.e. SharePoint)

Because you have an object in your sentence, you are using a 開くas a transitive
verb.

Because you are using 開くas a transitive verb, you read it as "ひらく"
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