Opening MS Office documents (files) directly from monday.com platform

Feature requests
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We work a lot with MS Office (365) documents (such as Word or Excel) in our projects. These documents are often changed during the course of the project. We would like to be able to open and edit these documents directly from monday. Editing with “Download>Edit>Upload as new version” is very cumbersome and does not correspond to our way of working.

Feature Request: MS-Office documents can be opened and edited directly from monday.com.

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Hello Carsten,
I suggest using the Smart Spreadsheet app for your needs. You can incorporate our spreadsheets as a board view (with automatic board transfer to a spreadsheet or upload your internal spreadsheet and edit or refer to board data inside it), as an item view in the Updates section, work as a separate object for large data sets, or work with spreadsheet tables in a document.

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Hallo,

i also would love to see this.
Would make it way easier to update and collaborate within Team.

Ability to direct edit Files like Word, Excel, etc. in Page preview (with automated versioning) to eliminate Download and Reupload of Documents.

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Hi @CarstenPf :waving_hand:

Totally understand the challenge — downloading, editing, and re-uploading files like Word or Excel documents can definitely slow down workflows, especially in fast-moving projects.

While monday.com doesn’t yet support direct in-browser editing for Office documents, there’s a workaround using the DocCreate app that may help improve your document process:

:sparkles: How DocCreate Can Help:

  • Generate custom Word or PDF documents from data in your boards (great for project reports, quotes, contracts, etc.)
  • Store documents directly in a file column, automatically attached to items
  • Automate version creation every time data changes (no need to manually download/edit/upload)
  • Keep a clean, updated version of each file aligned with the most recent item status or changes

:page_facing_up: Instead of editing Word docs manually, you can treat your monday board like the data source — and let DocCreate handle document generation and file updates, all without leaving monday.

:television: See how it works in this short demo:
Watch on YouTube

:rocket: Install DocCreate here:
Click to Install

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We’ve built a monday.com app called Local and Web Links specifically for this purpose. It lets you open local files and folders directly without leaving monday.com. The app is currently in beta, and you’re welcome to try it.

It will be available in the marketplace soon. We designed it to be highly affordable, and its simple nature allows us to offer it at a very low price.

https://viskode.com/monday-apps/local-and-web-links