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Geoffrey Mack's avatar
Geoffrey Mack
Copper Contributor
Oct 31, 2017
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Unable to edit or download embedded spreadsheet

I have embedded a spreadsheet from OneDrive for Business into my company's Office 365 Sharepoint site (private group). None of the buttons at the bottom in the black stripe work, in fact the 4 on the...
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  • David Leveille's avatar
    David Leveille
    Nov 02, 2017

    In your modern sharepoint site, you have added the "File viewer" SPFx web part. From this web part, you have pointed it to one of the ~270 supported file formats, Excel. 

    What was announced at Ignite 2017:

     

    Spoiler
    Build richer, more dynamic pages with new web parts. Your pages can include rich, dynamic content from across Office 365, now including Planner and Microsoft Forms. There’s a new file viewer web part that can display previews of over 270 file types. You can embed content from anywhere—including Twitter feeds, YouTube videos and Amazon book recommendations. And you can surface content from more than 100 cloud and on-premises sources using the connector web part.

    I haven't played with it yet. So that I understand, although the *file viewer* is allowing you to view the excel workbook, you expect the workbook to be *editable*?

    Is that the case when you use other formats, like PDF or Word or any of the other supported formats?

    Did you try this with any other workbooks - perhaps one with just a single worksheet?

    I will test this over the weekend myself.

Matt Coats's avatar
Matt Coats
Iron Contributor
Nov 01, 2017

This is absolutely a bug, and not one that has always existed. My organization relies on embedded spreadsheets for our website for over a year, and only today did we notice buttons there have stopped working--I would go so far as to guess that this is a widespread issue, as I couldn't get the buttons to work whether I was using my organization's files or my own from a personal OneDrive account. I've put in a ticket describing these symptoms--I would recommend doing the same, that usually gets us faster resolutions.

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