Inline viewing of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OpenOffice files
Updated
You can view the content of uploaded documents inline now, in your browser. This is useful if:
- You’re using RSpace on a device that doesn’t have MSOffice or OpenOffice installed.
- You want a quick preview of a document’s contents without downloading in in full.
Supported file formats include: .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .ppt, .pptx, .odp.
By default, a simple image preview is presented, with arrows to navigate through pages/slides. Clicking the ‘View’ button will stream a PDF version of the document to your browser in a new tab or window.Clicking ‘Download’ will download the original document to your device.‘Get Info’ will provide information on the attachment’s owner, filesize etc. You can also add a caption to the attachment that will be searchable.
These screenshots show the range of preview functionality:On opening an RSpace document, a thumbnail image of the first page of an attachment is provided:
Expanding the preview enables the content to be navigated from within the RSpace document:
This shows a full-screen PDF preview of an uploaded Powerpoint presentation after clicking the ‘View’ button:
