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Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?

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Posted on 11 Dec 2023 09:38:07 by WebPortal 2,278

This word file is stored in Dataverse.

 

I'm using a "PDF viewer" control to view PDF files and that is working fine for PDF documents.

 

But how to preview WORD documents?

 

Thanks!

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    MichaelFP 1,833 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 15 Oct 2024 at 01:43:13
    Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?
    Maybe you can try using the Power Automate to convert the document to PDF, and using the same PDF viewer to view the document.
     
     
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    Shashank Bhide 940 Moderator on 06 Oct 2024 at 16:36:11
    Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?
    You might have to have a function app leveraging a third party library(like below) to read the document create a MemoryStream out of it and then create a thumbnail of the document, then have the function app stream the thumbnail back to your Canvas app where you bind it. I didn't find any reliable freeware doing that.
     
     
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    ankit_singhal 562 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 04 Oct 2024 at 05:12:26
    Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?
     
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    WebPortal 2,278 on 03 Oct 2024 at 17:29:17
    Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?
    Hello,
     
    Is there a way to preview Word documents from a canvas app, stored in Dataverse?
     
    Can anyone help?
     
    I still have this issue.
     
    Thanks in advance!
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    WebPortal 2,278 on 11 Dec 2023 at 09:53:39
    Re: Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?

    @v-bofeng-msft 

    Dataverse. I'm using Dataverse, not SharePoint as the data source.

    It seems to me that there is no "Thumbnail" property.

     

    Thank You!

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    v-bofeng-msft on 11 Dec 2023 at 09:47:29
    Re: Is there a way to view a WORD document in Power Apps?

    Hi @WebPortal ,

     

    I think this link will help you a lot:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS5MVCzz2r0

     

    Best Regards,

    Bof

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