How to Embed a Microsoft Word Document on a Web Page using plain HTML
In this article, we show how to embed a microsoft word document on a web page using plain HTML.
Doing this on your own, using your own custom code, is difficult.
The best way to embed a microsoft word document on a web page is to use the API provided by microsoft, which allows you to embed a microsoft word document right on your website.
And the code is extremely simple. It is shown below.
So Microsoft makes it very easy to show Microsoft documents such as Microsoft Word online.
Using the API that they set up, you have a fully-featured microsoft word document that a user can search terms for and do many other advanced functions.
Just as an example, I uploaded a Microsoft Word document to this website. It's just an example file dealing with nurse practitioners being granted autonomy in New York state after having reached 3600 hours of work as an NP.
The code to embed this document on this page is shown below.
Using Microsoft's API, I am able to show the following Microsoft Word document seen below.
As you can see this Microsoft Word document views just like a Microsoft Word document would appear on the actual desktop software.
Of course it's not fully featured because you're not going to do things such as edit or change fonts. It's only on the web for viewing, so none of those other features are present. But you can resize it, you can search the document for specific terms, you can print the document, you can download the document, as well as many other features that Microsoft provides.
So using the API is a very good idea. It allows the embedding of Microsoft Word files very easily online and gives many features. It is not recommended to do it any other way.
So using plain HTML, an anchor tag, you can embed and display a Microsoft Word document on a web page.
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