Preview Without Downloading
View PDFs, images, videos, and Office documents right in the browser. No download, no "open in another app." Just click the file and read it.
Edit And Preview Documents Right In The Browser
Open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file in Files.com and edit it in the browser. Work on one live file together with your team, and even with partners outside your company. No Office 365 license to edit, no downloading and re-uploading. And every preview, edit, and save is on the record.
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The Download-Edit-Reupload Habit Is The Problem
Here’s how most teams edit a shared document: download it, open it locally, change it, upload it back, and email everyone the new version. Then someone edits the old one. Now there are two files, two sets of changes, and no clean answer for which is right. And a copy of the document is sitting on someone’s laptop where nobody can see it.
The Files.com Editor cuts the whole loop. The file stays where it lives, and people edit it in the browser, together, in real time. One live file, one version, every edit attributed to whoever made it. Nothing leaves the platform to be edited, so the most common way data walks out the door never starts.
Co-Editing Built Into The Platform
Real-time editing for Office files, for your own team and for the partners you work with.
Edit Office Files In The Browser
Open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file and edit it right where it lives, in the browser. The editor is built into Files.com and served by Files.com, so no one needs an Office 365 license to use it.
Many People In One File
Dozens of people can be in the same document at once, seeing each other’s cursors and edits as they happen. One live file instead of a Final-v3-versus-v4 mess.
Outside Partners, No Account
Invite a vendor, customer, or contractor into a live editing session through a public share link. Outside partners need no Files.com account to join. So you co-author with people outside your company without provisioning them or sending the file out by email.
See Who Changed What
Track Changes attributes every edit to the person who made it, including outside partners who came in through a share link. You always know who wrote which line.
Preview And Protect Without A Download
Preview-Only For Sensitive Files
Let someone read a document without being able to edit or download it. The right setting for a contract or a record you want seen but not copied.
Watermark Each View
Stamp the viewer’s identity across every preview, so a leaked screenshot points back to who took it. It’s a deterrent and a way to trace a leak. It won’t stop a determined person from taking a screenshot.
No Two-People-At-Once Collisions
File locking coordinates across the browser editor and the desktop editing path, so two people can’t quietly overwrite each other’s work on the same file.
Compliance-Grade Collaboration
Editing in the browser does not mean editing outside your controls. Your own people sign in through your identity and permission setup. Outside co-authors arrive through a share link. Every session runs under the same encryption, retention, and access rules as the rest of your data, with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR posture underneath.
Pair that with the unified audit log, and the editing that used to leave copies on laptops and files in inboxes becomes one tracked activity you can show an auditor.
Document Collaboration Questions
What teams ask about editing in the browser, working with outside partners, and keeping document activity governed.
The Files.com Editor requires no Microsoft Office license. It’s built into the platform and served by Files.com, and it edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files right in the browser. It’s a high-quality co-editor for Office formats inside a governed file platform, not a replacement for the full Microsoft 365 suite.
A public share link can grant co-authoring access on Files.com, so a vendor, customer, or contractor edits the file with you without ever creating a Files.com account. Their edits are attributed through Track Changes, and the whole session stays inside the same security perimeter as the rest of your data.
Dozens of people can be in a single Files.com co-editing session at once, seeing each other’s edits live and saving back to the one source file. Work auto-saves every few minutes during the session, with a final save when the file is closed.
Microsoft Office for the Web is available on Files.com as an alternative editor, for teams who prefer the Microsoft editing experience. The one caveat: it can’t be used at the same time as remote SharePoint editing on the same file.
Files.com captures every preview, every edit, and every save in the unified audit log with full attribution, and can stream them to your SIEM. Editing happens under the same retention, SSO, MFA, and encryption as everything else on the platform.
Every Files.com plan includes co-editing of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, plus in-app preview of PDFs, images, audio, and video. Watermarking is available on Power and above.
Put Your Team On One Live File
Start a 7-day free trial, open a document, and invite your team and your partners into the same file. No Office licenses, no version chaos.
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