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How to View XLSX in an Angular Web App

By Andrey Safonov | 2022 Jul 25

2 min

Additional Functionality

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

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

How to View PPTX in an Angular Web App

Step 1 - Get Started

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

Code Example for Angular Document Viewer

WebViewer({
  ...,
  initialDoc: 'https://myserver.com/myfile.xlsx',
}, document.getElementById('viewer'));

You can also call loadDocument with the same parameters.

WebViewer(...)
  .then(instance => {
    instance.UI.loadDocument('https://myserver.com/myfile.xlsx', { filename: 'myfile.xlsx' });
  });

Step 2 - Run the App

You can now run the app via 'npm start'.

To view the npm Angular file viewer xlsx app, navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app automatically reloads if you change any of the source files.

A Customizable UI

If you want to configure the UI, WebViewer comes with a rich set of APIs. To get an idea of the vast array of possibilities, check out the UI customization guide. You can also create your own UI by referencing our open-source UI code.

Conclusion

Adding Office document viewing and collaboration to your native npm Angular file browser app is straightforward with Apryse’s WebViewer, a JavaScript-based MS Office SDK. Find the source code for this blog post on our GitHub.

You can also check out other capabilities on our showcase.

If you have any questions about Apryse’s SDK or WebViewer, please get in touch.