Plugins
Office Documents in Digital Signage

Office Documents

Show Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on your screens, uploaded or as live links.

About

Show Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on your screens. Upload them to your Library, where each page becomes an image, or link to the live file, for example on Google Drive, through Google’s or Microsoft’s online viewer and our Website plugin. With a link, your screens show your edits.

Get Started

Upload a file to your Library

  • Upload the .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt or .pptx file to your Library
  • Each page or slide becomes an image you can add to slides, or turn into slides at once with Multi Create

Animations from PowerPoint are lost.

Show a live file with Google's viewer

  • Put your file’s address after https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=
  • Check that it opens in your browser, like this example
  • Paste it into the Website plugin

Show a live file with Microsoft's viewer

  • Put your file’s address after https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=
  • Check that it opens in your browser, like this example
  • Paste it into the Website plugin

Options

It’s shown with the Website plugin, so you have its settings.

Option What it does
Website plugin options The same as the Website plugin: see Website options

FAQ

Which plugin shows live files?

The Website plugin, with one of the online viewers above. Our player app has no built-in viewer for these formats.

Upload when the file rarely changes. Link when you edit it often, so your screens show the latest version without uploading again.

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