Title: Document Preview
Last modified: October 14, 2020

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# Document Preview

 *  [williamslyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/williamslyd/)
 * (@williamslyd)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/document-preview-2/)
 * Is it possible to preview documents on the site on the front end? Right now it
   is only possible to download them.

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 *  Plugin Author [David Cavins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcavins/)
 * (@dcavins)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/document-preview-2/#post-13533617)
 * Some browsers will open an attached file in the browser rather than immediately
   downloading it, but it depends on the browser and the user’s preferences.
 * As far as showing thumbnails of the attachments or similar, I don’t think we 
   have that capability, because a file could be of many types, many of which it
   would be difficult to offer a thumbnail of, like Word docs or spreadsheets, etc.
 * Thanks for your question,
 * -David

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