Is there a way to edit Word files from an Azure Blobstorage directly from an WebApp?

Question

We have a web app that has a list of documents (Word Files, etc) - which are stored in an Azure blob storage - that we want to be able to edit directly in Word via an Office URI, or at least directly from the Web App.

Note: The Frontend is Angular and the Backend is .NET (based on the Clean Architecture Template)

The Idea behind it is that the user should not have to download the file, edit it, upload it again and then remove the older file (or replace for that matter).

We currently use our Office add-in and open the file in Word via Office URIs.
This does not seem to be the optimal path as the users have to manually install the add-in and its a bit hacky. And this does not seem to work for older or the enterprise on-premise Word (2019 and below) version - we are currently testing to see if it works or not.

We also came across WOPI but from my (admittedly limited) understanding, isn’t WOPI only compatible with Word Online?

Answer 1

Hello 69613559 ,

Thanks for reaching out on Microsoft Q&A.

There’s no direct way to edit files in Azure Blob Storage from a web app, but here are some options: you could connect with cloud editors for editing or build a simple editor using tools like Quill or TinyMCE. Choose what works best for your setup.

Hope this helps! And, if you have any further query do let us know.

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