[Feature] PowerPoint viewer for UWP?

[niels9001]

Describe the problem this feature would solve

PowerPoint drives the enterprise. And in some LOB apps, it sometimes makes sense to embed slidedecks.

Describe the solution

A viewer control that allows for simple adding a file path to a URL to view the slides, supporting swipe to go to the next/previous slide would be great. Support for animations is not really necessary.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Automatically saving PowerPoints to PDFs or images.. but that does defeat the purpose of having a single-source-of-truth document (.PPT) where the information is stored.

Additional context & Screenshots

I'm working on an internal Surface Hub application that allows project managers to keep track of the progress of their teams. Each teams keeps their slides up to date with the latest screenshots and other important information. Displaying these slides in the actually experience itself without switching apps would be a great experience.

This could be extended to also support .doc and .xlxs

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[skendrot]

I'm not an expert in this area by any means , but this would probably be difficult due to licensing restrictions.

[Kyaa-dost]

@michael-hawker is this control possible to adopt? Curious about the licensing restrictions 🤔

[michael-hawker]

Yeah, that's a good question. I remember discussing this for other scenarios, and I think the license prevents these types of scenarios, but I'd have to double-check. We'd effectively just be wrapping things up in a WebView as an API though...

[Kyaa-dost]

Transferring to the Discussion as we are not certain about this feature.