# Documents on website **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [April 16, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083 "2024-04-16T16:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rosek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rosek/32/25887_2.png) [@rosek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/rosek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/1 "2024-04-16T16:13:28Z")
How can you make sure that a document that is on my website actually opens immediately when someone clicks on it (instead of downloading it)? Or is it silly to want that? ---
**Author:** ![RapidBase](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rapidbase/32/24626_2.png) [@RapidBase](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/RapidBase)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/2 "2024-04-16T19:57:50Z")
Not ‘silly’, at most a little naive. 😉 Which ‘documents’ are you talking about and which app on the computer of the downloading user should open which document? A jpg-file could be opened by a lot of apps (Preview, Photoshop etc.) and also a Word-document could be opened by several apps (Pages, MS Word, OpenOffice etc.). Also a PDF-file could be opened by Preview, Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or PDF Expert etc. I think that doesn’t make sense, so you should bury this idea… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![curiouschuck](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/curiouschuck/32/14064_2.png) [@curiouschuck](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/curiouschuck)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/3 "2024-04-16T21:07:28Z")
@rosek it all starts with what the “document” type is that you want displayed? The best way to insure that something opens “immediately” is to keep the size of the file itself small and of course, make sure the page that contains it also loads quickly. ---
**Author:** ![ToF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@ToF](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ToF)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/4 "2024-04-17T05:05:06Z")
Hello Rose, what kind of document (or ist it text, images or both) are you talking about? If you can convert the document into a pdf-file it can be see in the browser and even easily downloaded and seen on nearly any device. ---
**Author:** ![rosek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rosek/32/25887_2.png) [@rosek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/rosek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/5 "2024-04-17T07:50:39Z")
Thank you. The documents are .doc and .xlx, so that should be easy. I’ll try that thank you. Rose ---
**Author:** ![rosek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rosek/32/25887_2.png) [@rosek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/rosek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/6 "2024-04-17T07:55:13Z")
Dear Chuck The documents are excel and word files. And certainly not big. So that is not the problem. Sb told me pdf’s open immediately, but is that true? Or does it have sth to do with browser settings when a file doesn’t open immediately? Maybe because of security settings in the browser? Rose ---
**Author:** ![rosek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rosek/32/25887_2.png) [@rosek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/rosek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/7 "2024-04-17T07:58:12Z")
Thnks! The documents are doc-files and xls-files, so relatively simple. Could it be caused by browser security settings that a file doesn’t open. That would be my guess, after some more thinking. Rose ---
**Author:** ![Heroic\_Nonsense](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/heroic_nonsense/32/20666_2.png) [@Heroic\_Nonsense](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Heroic_Nonsense)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/8 "2024-04-17T07:59:57Z")
Hi @rosek, On Windows, visitors can’t open Word and Excel files automatically from a browser because of Windows’ built-in security measures (Word and Excel files can be used to spread viruses, is why). I’m afraid you’ll have to get used to visitors having to download those file types first. Cheers, Erwin ---
**Author:** ![ToF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@ToF](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ToF)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/9 "2024-04-17T08:06:42Z")
If you choose PDF take a look hier: [PDF Viewer (Embedded) can't find one to purchase](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/pdf-viewer-embedded-cant-find-one-to-purchase/43066) ---
**Author:** ![RapidBase](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rapidbase/32/24626_2.png) [@RapidBase](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/RapidBase)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/10 "2024-04-17T08:17:39Z")
Although doc- and xls-files may look simple “from the outside” they aren’t simple at all when looking at the internal file structure. Also such files could contain malware, so it could be a security risk to directly open them. To my knowledge there’s no easy solution to open these file formats directly inside the browser. For PDF-files there are stacks available which display them directly on a page or in a lightbox (see link by @ToF ). ---
**Author:** ![rosek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rosek/32/25887_2.png) [@rosek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/rosek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/documents-on-website/43083/11 "2024-04-17T08:38:21Z")
Thanks!🙏🏼