Files.com integrates with Office 365 to collaborate on Microsoft Office spreadsheets, documents, and presentations directly in your Files.com folders with your colleagues in real time!

Launching Microsoft Office for Web

Ensure that you are logged in to your Microsoft account in the same web browser you are using to access your Files.com site. A free Microsoft 365 account is sufficient for viewing, editing and co-authoring documents in your Files.com account. You must have read permissions to the Files.com file you want to view or edit, and you must have full permissions in order to launch the Office editor in edit mode.

Creating a New Document

You can start a blank Office document directly within your Files.com site. In the desired folder, use the Add New... menu button to display the file types that can be added. Enter a name for your new document, and the blank file will be opened in Microsoft Office in a new tab.

The Add New... menu will be displayed only if your folder settings, site settings and profile settings permit. Your folder must not include settings for restricting uploads would block uploading Office documents. If your site settings automatically rename uploaded files, the Add New... menu will not include options for Office file types.

Editing an Existing Document

Navigate to any file stored on your Files.com site that is a Microsoft Office file format, such as .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx (for a full list of supported formats, refer to Office for the Web page). Use the ... menu and choose Open in Microsoft Office Online. Only files which can be opened with the Microsoft Office editor will include that menu option.

Working With Documents

Microsoft Office Online will open your document in a new browser tab. Once open, you can work with your document using the Microsoft Office tools and menu items that you are already familiar with.

You need at least Full Permission on the folder containing the document to edit it through Microsoft Office Online. If you do not have at least Full Permission, then you will be able to open the document through Microsoft Office Online, but not edit it.

Saving Your Work

You do not need save the document while you are editing, since Microsoft Office for Web saves your work automatically. You will see in the search bar above the application menu your document status as Saved to Files.com. You will also see the application name, the document name, and at the right edge of the search bar, the user name under which you are currently logged in.

Collaborating Online

When multiple Files.com users can access and work on the same document, you can see who else is working on the document when you are and can see their changes in real time. Likewise, they can see your changes in real time. For multi-page documents, Microsoft Office for Web also provides an indication of which page each collaborator is on, so that you can avoid stepping on each others' changes. When your collaborator moves from one page to another, you will immediately see their icon move to let you know.

When co-authoring a document, all of the people editing the document must be using the same system for editing. For example, if a document is stored in a remote mount of a SharePoint server, you cannot simultaneously edit that document through Microsoft Office for the Web and through SharePoint online. Each service will be working off of its own cached copy of the data, with unpredictable results.

File size limitations

While your Files.com site can handle files up to 5TB in size, this particular integration is subject to the file size limitations required by Microsoft. Visit Microsoft Office documentation for their latest limits on file sizes and sessions with Microsoft Office for web.