Up next in 10
How to Open & View Word DOCX,Excel & Markdown Files in VSCode IDE Using Office Viewer Extension
Jul 5, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
0:02
in this video, I'll show you how to edit
0:04
your Microsoft Excel word document files
0:07
and markdown files directly inside your
0:09
VS code. So there is an extension that
0:11
you need to install here which lets you
0:15
do this. So the extension name is office
0:18
viewer. It basically it's a Microsoft
0:22
Office official.
0:25
It acts like you can actually preview
0:27
multiple documents, word documents,
0:29
excel files and also markdown files as
0:31
well using a visic editor. This is
0:34
actually the thing about this extension.
0:36
So simply go to extension just type here
0:39
office viewer and the very first
0:41
extension which comes right here simply
0:44
click the install button and in the
0:47
documentation that you can see.
0:52
So you it also comes with its own theme
0:54
as well. One dark model. You can select
0:56
the theme. After that
0:59
simply open the file here.
1:02
You open the
1:05
so now you will see it will actually
1:08
preview all your markdown file here.
1:11
This is my sample markdown file. So this
1:15
is the highlighting that it provides
1:17
you. It also has various themes that you
1:20
can put for markdown highlighting by
1:23
selecting the theme button right here
1:25
and you can select from a various of
1:28
themes.
1:29
So you can edit the files right here
1:32
itself. So this is your markdown file.
1:36
Similarly we also have the excel file
1:39
which comes with this uh
1:43
this editor this Microsoft Excel editor.
1:46
So here you can edit your data directly
1:48
inside VS code. As you can see we are
1:50
editing all this data right here.
1:54
This is you can see sheet one and here
1:57
you can we are directly editing this
2:00
data inside our Excel file and same goes
2:03
for micro word document file as well. So
2:06
you can actually download a word word
2:09
document file
2:12
from the internet. Let me just download
2:15
this file here. Sample doc file.
2:27
So it's a great extension uh office
2:29
view. Let me
2:35
copy this inside this folder and show to
2:37
you.
2:42
So this is our doc file. If I show you
2:44
this is the doc file.
2:51
I think this needs to be do ox file not
2:56
Yeah. So this one is the file here. Word
2:59
document file.
3:10
So if I just paste it right here.
3:21
So this is your docx file here. If I try
3:24
to open this now you can see the word
3:27
document file directly opens and you can
3:29
even edit you can go to the page number
3:32
right here. You can input go to any page
3:35
and you can see all the images all the
3:37
text data is currently showing all the
3:39
table like structure. So it's actually
3:41
acts as a word document uh viewer
3:45
extension where you can actually read
3:48
your word documents directly. So this is
3:51
word document. You can even preview
3:53
excel files using a built-in editor. You
3:56
can make changes. It's very simple as
3:58
you can see.
4:01
And then we also can preview our
4:04
markdown file as well. So this is the
4:06
ultimate extension which comes with its
4:08
own theme as well. You can see it has
4:10
various themes as well.
4:13
So you can check out this extension.
4:15
Just go to extensions tab and just type
4:18
here office viewer
4:20
and uh start editing your files using a
4:23
vivic editor as well. So, thank you very
4:26
much for watching this video and also
4:28
check out my website freemediatools.com
4:31
uh which contains thousands of tools.
#Software
#Business & Productivity Software