Good afternoon, please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word #2655

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opened 2026-02-05 04:43:10 +03:00 by OVERLORD · 3 comments
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Originally created by @vpnwe912 on GitHub (Feb 17, 2022).

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Good afternoon, please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word

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21.12.2

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Good afternoon, please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word

Originally created by @vpnwe912 on GitHub (Feb 17, 2022). ### Attempted Debugging - [X] I have read the debugging page ### Searched GitHub Issues - [X] I have searched GitHub for the issue. ### Describe the Scenario Good afternoon, please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word ### Exact BookStack Version 21.12.2 ### Log Content _No response_ ### PHP Version 7.4 ### Hosting Environment Good afternoon, please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word
OVERLORD added the 🐕 Support label 2026-02-05 04:43:10 +03:00
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@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2022):

Hi @vpnwe912,

please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word

The possibility, of something directly built in, is very unlikely. Supporting these formats would require a great deal of effort which we don't have at this time.
Our focus is instead on the core page content within BookStack.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2022): Hi @vpnwe912, > please tell me the possibility of implementing a preview of documents before downloading Excel and Word The possibility, of something directly built in, is very unlikely. Supporting these formats would require a great deal of effort which we don't have at this time. Our focus is instead on the core page content within BookStack.
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@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2022):

Since the original question has been answered and there's been no follow up I'll close this off.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2022): Since the original question has been answered and there's been no follow up I'll close this off.
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@sdhadi commented on GitHub (Aug 20, 2022):

This is our problem/request too. This feature could be so useful because there are too many documents already exist in data warehouse of companies which they trying to implement in their Bookstack portal.
Viewing and even ability to search in the Word and Excel document with native Bookstack's search module would be very useful. Some other DMSs and Wikis already has this feature. Copping contents from Word to Bookstack's editor is easy but copping and transferring info and content from Excel document to Bookstack's editor is time consuming, tedious and some times impossible because the Bookstack's editor is not natively a spreadsheet.
@ssddanbrown do you think it is worth it I raise a new feature by this explanations?

@sdhadi commented on GitHub (Aug 20, 2022): This is our problem/request too. This feature could be so useful because there are too many documents already exist in data warehouse of companies which they trying to implement in their Bookstack portal. Viewing and even ability to search in the Word and Excel document with native Bookstack's search module would be very useful. Some other DMSs and Wikis already has this feature. Copping contents from Word to Bookstack's editor is easy but copping and transferring info and content from Excel document to Bookstack's editor is time consuming, tedious and some times impossible because the Bookstack's editor is not natively a spreadsheet. @ssddanbrown do you think it is worth it I raise a new feature by this explanations?
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Reference: starred/BookStack#2655