Editing files in netfiles directly with Microsoft Office

This feature is only available for netfiles Data Room Professional and Premium.

You can edit Office documents directly in netfiles either with your locally installed Microsoft Office software or online in the web browser with the integrated OnlyOffice application. This feature must be activated by a data room administrator. You can find instructions for administrators in this article. You must also have the access right “View, upload, download, delete and edit” (pen icon) on the corresponding documents.

Editing with locally installed Microsoft Office

Select an Office file from the “Documents” area and click on “Edit” in the right feature bar.

Please allow your office application to open files from netfiles in the following browser and operating system specific security dialog.

Now your Office application opens the document in the protected view. To be able to edit the document, click on “Activate editing” in the upper line.

The document is locked for other users in the data room while you are editing it. This is indicated by a “Working copy” marker.

You can edit and save the file back for two hours (2 h). As soon as you save the file, a new version is automatically saved to the data room.