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Is there any plugin in AEM to view documents like pdf , word, excel inside author instance DAM ?

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Out of the box - the answer is no. Assets are stored in DAM. Assets like an Excel file cannot be viewed from within the DAM. 

However - you can build a custom script to view Excel, etc in an AEM page. See this stackoverflow thread for more information:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9678127/how-to-display-excel-sheet-in-html-page

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Out of the box - the answer is no. Assets are stored in DAM. Assets like an Excel file cannot be viewed from within the DAM. 

However - you can build a custom script to view Excel, etc in an AEM page. See this stackoverflow thread for more information:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9678127/how-to-display-excel-sheet-in-html-page