Edit the most common productivity suite files directly within your Files.com site with an Online Editor Integration. Save time and fuss by editing directly in your site, including co-authoring with other users. Collaborate on files together with share link recipients.

Selecting The Online Editor for your site

Site administrators choose which Online Editor Integration to enable for conventional business file format documents: the Files.com editor, Microsoft Office for Web, or no editing allowed. By default, your site online editor is the Files.com editor.

By default, the Files.com editor will be enabled on your site, although you can customize this. For most organizations, we recommend leaving the Files.com editor selected as the editor for your site.

Required Permissions

You need Full Permission for the folder containing the document you want to edit. If you do not have Full Permission, then you will be able to open the document for viewing, but not edit it.

Saving Changes

When you use an online editor to make changes (including co-editing with others), the working file is temporarily copied to the editor's storage system.

As you make changes to the document within the online editor, changes are automatically uploaded from the editor system to your site every 2 to 5 minutes. When the editor is closed, any remaining changes are uploaded from the editor system to your site. This results in a small delay before changes are reflected in your site.

After the changes have finished uploading, the last modified time of the file in your site will reflect that recent activity, and you can preview or download the most recent version from your site.

Supported File Types

Each of the supported Online Editor Integration options lets you edit .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx files without any special conversion. The tables below list other formats that can be edited, and some that require a conversion first.

File Types Requiring Conversion

Some legacy productivity file formats, such as .doc, .xls and .ppt will require conversion before they can be edited. This can cause unexpected formatting changes when the converted file is opened in your online editor.

When a converted document cannot be stored as the original format, such as a .xls file being converted to .xlsx, a new file is added to your folder with the converted format. The original is not changed.

A site administrator can configure any of these file types, such as CSV and RTF, to be treated as native text extensions with the site's Text-only File Extensions for Preview setting. Doing this will allow the designated file types to be previewed in your site without converting them.

Files with formats that require conversion cannot be viewed or edited by Share Link visitors. To collaborate in a document using one of these formats, first edit it in the File Manager and then include the converted file in the Share Link.

Files.com Editor Supported Formats

The table below lists what types of files can be edit using the Files.com editor.

Microsoft Office for Web Supported Formats

The table below lists what types of files can be edited using Microsoft Office for Web.