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Brent Ellis
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Mar 31, 2017

Open PDF in Word Online (o365)?

Is it still possible to open PDFs in SharePoint in Word Online (based on a direct URL) for online browser viewing.  I thought you used to be able to do this, but now I cant find any kind of url/optio...
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Jared Pickerell's avatar
Jared Pickerell
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Mar 31, 2017

Along same lines, our school posts an updated PDF of our daily high school announcments on the school web site. In order to get an browser-based inline PDF viewer, I have to to use Google! http://docs.google.com/a/troyusd.org/viewer?url=www.troyusd.org/pages/downloads/DailyBulletin.pdf

 

Similarly, our lunch meal provider, has an automatically generated PDF version of our monthly building menues. In order to give our patrons a browswer based view of those, I also have to use the Google viewer. http://docs.google.com/a/troyusd.org/viewer?url=http://www.opaaschoolmenus.com/menu/student/Troy%20USD%20429%20-%20Grade%20School/cur/

 

I can do this with Microsoft Live viewer only for Office format files (DOC, XLS, PPT) but not PDF. As Office 365 has the ability to view PDFs in the browser, why not enable the direct link viewer to also display PDFs???

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