Browse to a location on your server or in the cloud. If you are using the list view mode, any Word, Powerpoint, Excel or PDF documents will have an additional icon that will bring up the Share menu.
If you cant see the icons, see the section below.
You can add more file types on the Config/Preferences popup.
If you are not using list view, simply tap the document to preview it and in the top right corner you will see the "Edit In Place" button.
Now iOS will show you the apps that this file can be passed to. Scroll the app icons list to the right until you find Word.
Cant see Word?
If you cant see Word, scroll to the far right and tap "More".
In this dialog, tap "Edit" in the top right.
Then find Word which will be under the "Suggested" section. Tap the plus icon next to it and it will now appear as one of your "Favourites".
Tap "Done", then "Done" again.
Word should now appear as one of the icons in the list, like in the screenshot.
To reorder your Favorite icons to speed this up for next time, scroll to the far right and tap "More", then tap "Edit".
Now you can re-order your favorite actions, with Word as the first item for example.
Word, Excel or Powerpoint will then open.
Simply make your changes and when finished, tap the back arrow. This will save your changes back to the Server or Cloud where you opened the document.
If you don't see the Word, Excel or Powerpoint App Icons appear in the file listing, you need to install the apps which you can do so from here:
Download Microsoft Word here
Download Microsoft PowerPoint here
Download Microsoft Excel here
Download PDF Viewer Pro by PSPDKit here
Download Adobe Acrobat here
If you dont see the additional icon, use the pinch zoom gesture (like you would a photo) to enlarge the folder view.If you still cant see the icon it may need turning on in Config. Perform the following steps:
If you would like to use FileBrowser's Edit In Place directly in the iOS Files app, follow our simple guide.here.
PDF annotation works with the same steps as detailed above and we highly recommend using PDF Viewer Pro by PSPDKit or Adobe Acrobat to use with FileBrowser.