Before you begin

Before starting the steps to configure an External Content item, ensure the following prerequisites have been met:

• If you are placing the Word document on a remote computer in your network, ensure connectivity between the computer where the ViewApp will run and the computer where the remote Word document has been saved.

  Mapping a network drive is a typical way to connect to a remote computer hosting documents that you want show in a running ViewApp. For this configuration to work successfully, it is important that the computer to which the ViewApp is launched from has the same drive letter mapped to a location having the referenced document.

  The DocViewerApp shows an error message to the user if the specified URI connection to the Word file is bad. For more information about the error message, see DocViewerApp error message.

• Save the Word document in the presentation format that you want to display in the DocViewApp.

  Typically, you want to format the Word document in its intended final form without showing any revision markup.

  Important: The DocViewerApp supports both the legacy .doc Word file type and the current docx file type.