Document Viewer – let visitors view files right in the browser
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About this tool.
Office files rendered by Microsoft, not by a converter.
Most embed plugins push your Word and Excel files through a third-party converter, and complex layouts come out broken — tables collapse, fonts change, slide animations disappear. Document Viewer uses Microsoft’s own Office Web Viewer , the same engine behind Office Online, so a .docx looks like a .docx and an .xlsx keeps its columns.
Your visitors read the file on the page. No download, no Office installation, no conversion step for you.
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Two viewer engines, both free
- Microsoft Office Web Viewer — the best choice for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Formatting, tables, charts and slide layouts stay intact because Microsoft renders them.
- Google Docs Viewer — a good fallback, and it handles PDF well.
Switch between them with a dropdown. No account and no API key for either.
What you can embed
Word — .doc, .docx Excel — .xls, .xlsx PowerPoint — .ppt, .pptx PDF — .pdf
Files can come from your Media Library or from a direct URL.
Why people use this one
- A spreadsheet that still looks like a spreadsheet. Google’s viewer often flattens Excel formatting. Microsoft’s does not.
- No conversion. You do not turn a .docx into a PDF or an HTML table first. Upload the file you already have.
- Visitors do not need Office. They read it in the browser, on a phone as easily as a desktop.
- It stays small. One shortcode, one block, a handful of settings. If you want a document library, a flipbook and sixteen file formats, that is a different plugin.
Who uses it for what
- Schools and training sites — handouts and slide decks students read in the browser.
- Theatre, events and clubs — schedules and scripts shared with cast and crew.
- Accountants and consultants — rate cards and spreadsheets a client reads without downloading.
- Councils and associations — minutes, forms and policies published as the Word files they already keep.
- Internal pages — a price list or process document embedded on a members-only page.