How to View DOCX in an Angular Web App

Looking for an Angular DOCX viewer? This blog describes how to view Microsoft Office documents in an Angular file viewer app using Apryse’s WebViewer. This includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats and legacy formats like DOC, XLS, and PPT. 

With just a few lines of code, view files client-side, without server dependencies, Microsoft Office licenses, or third-party software. The Apryse WebViewer directly converts DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files using JavaScript, and renders them for viewing dynamically.

You can also try our office demo to test your files in WebViewer.

View our full Angular doc viewer demo on GitHub, or visit the documentation for get-started steps and further information on additional functionality. 

WebViewer supports more than simply viewing Office documents, offering annotation, mail merge on DOCX templates, text editing, page manipulation, redaction, form filling and creation, and much more.

WebViewer also supports formats like PDF, images, videos, and CAD documents. 

After the Angular doc viewer example is running, pass the URL, blob, file path, or arrayBuffer to initialDoc property in the WebViewer constructor. 

You can also call loadDocument with the same parameters.

Now run the app via 'npm start'.

View the npm Angular file viewer docx app, by navigating to http://localhost:4200/. The app automatically reloads if you change any source files.

To configure the UI, WebViewer comes with a rich set of APIs. For an idea of the vast possibilities, check out the UI customization guide, or create your own UI by referencing our open-source UI code.

The process to add Office document viewing and collaboration to your native npm Angular file browser app is straightforward using the Apryse WebViewer, a JavaScript-based MS Office SDK. The source code for this blog post is available on our GitHub.

See for yourself. Try out Apryse features using your own documents with the interactive demo with Apryse showcase.

Have any questions about Apryse’s SDK or WebViewer? Start a chat on Discord with our solutions engineers or reach out to our sales team for a personalized demo.