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Open what your coworker produced without downloading it first.

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What opens in place

Click a file in the panel and it opens beside the conversation.
A reconciliation spreadsheet rendered as a readable table, with two rows flagged as differing

A result opened in place. You can read the numbers your coworker is talking about while you talk about them.

The PDF viewer is the one worth knowing about. Search finds text inside the document, and the page rail down the side lets you jump to a page — so a coworker handing you a forty-page report gives you something you can actually check.

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Why this matters

The point isn’t convenience. It’s that checking your coworker’s work should be easier than doing it yourself, or you won’t check. A result you have to download, find in your downloads folder and open in another application is a result you’ll skim and accept. One that opens next to the conversation, where you can read the number and compare it against what your coworker said, is one you’ll actually verify.

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Good to know

Ask questions about what you’re looking at. “Row 40 looks wrong — where did that come from?” while the spreadsheet is open in front of you is a much better conversation than describing the problem from memory.
Previewing doesn’t change anything. To edit, use the editor for text files — see The file manager — or ask your coworker.

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Common questions

Yes. The viewer has a search box that finds text in the document, and a page rail for jumping straight to a page.
Download it and open it locally. Anything unusual still downloads fine even when there’s no preview for it.
It appears inline in the conversation and as a file in the panel. See Generating images.
Large files load progressively rather than all at once, so a long PDF opens quickly and fills in as you page through.

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Next steps

Seeing what changed

Compare before and after.

The file manager

Where previews open from.

Working with code and files

How the files got made.

Files overview

Back to the basics.