

The ability to sort Collections by ‘recently used,’ on the other hand, doesn’t require you to change anything in the Settings. In other words, you can enable the new Office file viewer toggle right from the browser settings. Edge Team has added the ability to sort Collections by ‘recently used’ alongside ‘date created’ and ‘name.’ Image: Leopeva64-2Īs mentioned above, these two features are currently available for Canary users, but the good thing is that these aren’t available behind a flag. Microsoft has added another useful new feature to Edge Canary. On the Downloads page, you’ll see a toggle called ‘Quickly view Office files on the web using Office Viewer.’ Enable the toggle so that you get to view Office files without having to download them.

You can find the new Office viewer toggle just by visiting Edge browser Settings > Downloads.
HOW TO GET MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD VIEWER PDF
Long story short, it’s exactly like how you open a PDF file in a browser and can download, print later if you want. Moreover, the Office file viewer page has an option for the users to print the document. You can also save it to OneDrive if it’s that important. Luckily, you also have an option to download the file in case you want to save the file in your local storage. Once you enable the toggle, clicking on an Office file will open a new tab where you’ll be able to see the file and won’t start downloading as the Edge Stable does. The new toggle is currently available in the Canary channel, meaning the Stable and Beta users cannot use the feature as of now. Docx files through a converter, and it also supports older. You hit the chosen file, and the viewer will support. After you have installed it, you run the Microsoft Office Word Viewer, and you will be given an 'Open File' option. In an effort to give Edge users the ability to open Office files without having to download them, Microsoft has added a new toggle, enabling which will let users open presentations, spreadsheets, documents within Edge. You do not have to install or print Microsoft Word documents.
