Is there any way to open excel in browser through MVC application, if MS excel not available on client machine?

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Is there any way to open excel in browser through MVC application, if MS excel not available on client machine?

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I tried on many thing but not get any success.

Posted 14-Jan-20 22:23pm

chitranshi kulkarni

Updated 15-Jan-20 0:56am

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F-ES Sitecore 15-Jan-20 4:38am

It doesn't have to be Excel proper, but they have to at least have a viewer installed. How else can the browser show the data if it doesn't know how to interpret the file?

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2020-01-14T22:29:00

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Not unless your website can provide an embedded application that can do everything that Excel can do.

Posted 14-Jan-20 22:29pm

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Richard MacCutchan 15-Jan-20 4:58am

Sorry, I have no details. I am just trying to explain that you cannot edit an Excel file without an application that has all the features of Excel.

Dar Brett · Answer 2 · 2020-01-15T00:57:00

If by 'open' you mean 'extract data out of' then there's a couple of ways - assuming it's an xslx file, not xls.

Essentially modern office documents are zip files containing the content of the document, mostly xml. Try renaming a document to have a .zip extension and take a look if you like. The format is Office Open XM[^] standard, since it's developed by Microsoft it has good support in the .Net Framework - although since it's an open standard you could probably extract data out of it using JavaScript in the browser - something like this Open XML SDK for JavaScript | Eric White[^]

If you actually need to edit the spreadsheet, I would probably see what you can do to integrate your application with either Office 365 or Google Docs to leverage their functionality, because building a functional spreadsheet application in a browser is probably a lot more work than it seems like.