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

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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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v-bofeng-msft on at

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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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WebPortal 2,295 on at

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@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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WebPortal 2,295 on at

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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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ankit_singhal 590 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Please check below blog
https://sharepains.com/2022/04/01/open-word-documents-desktop-power-apps

Note: Please make verified, if it is useful for you

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Shashank Bhide 942 Moderator on at

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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.

https://docs.devexpress.com/OfficeFileAPI/403376/spreadsheet-document-api/examples/worksheets/how-to-generate-a-thumbnail-from-a-worksheet

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MichaelFP 1,847 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Maybe you can try using the Power Automate to convert the document to PDF, and using the same PDF viewer to view the document.

you can find an example here Advanced | Flow of The Week: Convert Office documents to PDF on the fly using Microsoft Flow - Microsoft Power Platform Blog

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