How to view a microsoft office word document (doc/docx) within a firefox browser?

Question

I have a small application with a directory that holds word documents. I want to enable the user to view the documents with in the browser. To have a list of the documents and when the users clicks on a document he will see the document on the right panel.

How can i view a word (doc/docx) inside the firefox browser? line in a DIV or IFRAME.

I thought of a few options: 1. Convert the document to HTML - but it's to problematic and i need to hold both original version and html version. 2. Use some extension, any idea for such an extension? 3. Any third or forth option?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could convert the documents to PDF, and then use Google's online PDF viewer to view them, this way the users don't need any special plugins installed.

Answer 2

The method I use to convert my Docs is to print to pdf. Otherwise probably the closest you will get to open it in FF is to cheat and use IE View.

Answer 3

There's this extension.

The post is from 2008, but it does mention Firefox v3 so it might work with the latest versions of FF.

I've just checked and it doesn't work with FF 3.6.

Answer 4

Let me understand what you want. You need the user can access a word or excel document within the browser right ?

Is that only for access ? Word buttons must be hidden (New, print, etc. ) ?

I think what you need is a viewer.