Using HiDrive Office

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With HiDrive Office, you can open and edit Office documents, such as DOCX, PPTX or XLSX, directly in your Internet browser. An installed Office program is not required on your end device. This article gives you an overview of using HiDrive Office.

Requirement

You have a HiDrive Pro plan or the HiDrive Office add-on for another HiDrive plan.

Supported file types

Text: doc, docm, docx, odt, rtf
Table: csv, ods, xls, xlsm, xlsx
Presentation: odp, ppt, pptx

Editing existing Office documents

To edit existing Office documents, save them in your HiDrive. Click on the file to start the editing mode of the assigned application.

Create new documents, tables, or presentations

To create a new document, table, or presentation:

Open the HiDrive web application in your web browser.
Click on the More button in the top right-hand corner of HiDrive. A menu opens.
Select the desired new Office file.
Enter a name for your new document and the corresponding application will open.

Please note that this function is not currently available in the HiDrive apps for Android or iOS. It is possible to create new Office files with a mobile device or tablet if you open HiDrive via a web browser installed on the end device.

Collaborating on a file

To edit an Office document together with others, save it in a shared HiDrive folder. This makes the file available to edit for anyone with a corresponding HiDrive Share link. With a regular HiDrive Share link, the file can only be downloaded.

Files can be edited simultaneously with others without any problems. A corresponding note about other users is displayed in the document.

Content

Supported file types
Editing existing Office documents
Create new documents, tables, or presentations
Collaborating on a file
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