{"id":284,"date":"2013-04-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2013\/04\/10\/office-web-viewer-view-office-documents-in-a-browser\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:04:40","slug":"office-web-viewer-view-office-documents-in-a-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/office-web-viewer-view-office-documents-in-a-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Web Viewer: View Office documents in a browser"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you have Office documents on your website or blog that you want your readers to view even if they don’t have Office installed?\u00a0 Would you rather view a document before downloading it?\u00a0 To give your audience a better experience, try the Office Web Viewer.<\/p>\n
It’s a service that creates Office Web Viewer links.\u00a0 Office Web Viewer links open Word, PowerPoint or Excel files in the browser that would otherwise be downloaded. You can easily turn a download link into an Office Web Viewer link to use in your website or blog (e.g., recipes, photo slide show, a menu, or a budget template).<\/p>\n
Some benefits of the Office Web Viewer include:<\/p>\n
Best-in-class productivity apps with intelligent\u00a0cloud services that transform the way you work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n
To use Office Web Viewer, click this link: http:\/\/officewebviewer.com<\/a><\/p>\n Then copy and paste the document’s URL in the text box. It looks like this:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To make the URL yourself, you can use the link below, where <Document Location> is a URL to the document.<\/p>\n http:\/\/view.officeapps.live.com\/op\/view.aspx?src=<Document Location><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> the <Document Location> needs to be URL encoded, and the document must be publicly accessible on the internet.<\/p>\n Here are a few examples of documents in the Office Web\u00a0Viewer:<\/p>\n If your document is an Office document and is publicly accessible on the internet, then you are good to go.\u00a0 Office Web Viewer links are a great alternative to download links because your readers don’t need a special program to view your documents, and they don’t have the interruption of leaving their browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you have Office documents on your website or blog that you want your readers to view even if they don’t have Office installed? Would you rather view a document before downloading it? To give your audience a better experience, try the Office Web Viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3368823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[4034,4035],"product":[4036],"audience":[4081],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4437],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","content-type-news","content-type-tips-and-guides","product-microsoft-365","audience-enterprise"],"yoast_head":"\n\n