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Add the editor without a programmer

A document and spreadsheet editor on your site, in your desktop program and on your phone. Tell Claude what you need and it will do it. No programmer required.

§ 01 · the promise

A Word and Excel editor inside your product — on the site, in the desktop program and on the phone.

You don’t need to be a programmer and you don’t need to wait for anyone. Copy the task, hand it to Claude—and in half an hour look at a working editor with your own document.

The SumDoc editor with an open contract inside a page
This is not a mock-up: the same editor is open right on this site —try it yourself.
  1. Copy the taskit is ready, below
  2. Hand it to Claudeit reads our documentation itself
  3. See the editorwith your document
§ 02 · integration

Your product lives in the browser. The editor opens right on the page — the user goes nowhere, the file stays with you.

Task for Claude — copy it whole
Connect to the MCP server https://docs.sumoffice.com/mcp
and, following the page "Embed into a web application", set up
the document editor on a test page for me.
I am not a programmer: explain step by step in plain words
and ask if you need anything from me.

What happens step by step →

An accounting system, an industry platform, an ERP add-on. The editor opens inside your program, and you know about every change.

Task for Claude — copy it whole
Connect to the MCP server https://docs.sumoffice.com/mcp
and, following the page "Embed into a desktop application", show me
how to open, change and save a document from my program.
I am not a programmer: make a small example that I can simply
run and see the result.

What happens step by step →

Phone and tablet. For viewing there’s a ready-made kit for Android and iOS—the same one used in our store apps. For editing from a phone, your server computes the document and your app shows the screen.

Task for Claude — copy it whole
Connect to the MCP server https://docs.sumoffice.com/mcp
and, following the page "Embed into a mobile application", explain
which parts of the mobile path work today and which do not yet,
and build me a small test application so that I can see
the editor on my phone.

What happens step by step →

§ 03 · verification

Not a screen recording and not a picture: both programs open right here, in the browser, with no installation. Only you see your edits.

A contract in the SumDoc editor

Headings, lists, a table with deadlines and an amount. Edit a paragraph and see what the editor looks like inside a third-party application.

Open the live editor →

An estimate in the SumSheet spreadsheet

Formulas, shares, two totals. Change a quantity or a price—the totals recalculate on their own.

Open the live spreadsheet →

§ 04 · capabilities

Short and to the point — what documents are opened for in the first place.

What you need Documents Spreadsheets
Open and save without loss DOCX, as well as ODT, RTF, HTML, plain text, EPUB, FB2 13 formats: XLSX, XLSB, XLSM, ODS, CSV and others
Format headings, lists, headers and footers, watermarks, tables, pictures and shapes width and height, merging, themes, conditional formatting
Assemble a document table of contents, list of figures, bibliography, fields and references pivot tables, subtotals, filters
Work together comments, tracked changes, comparing and merging versions sheet and range protection, review
Compute formulas, recalculation, dependency tracing, Power Query
Publish printing, PDF, including with embedded fonts printing, page layout, export
Inspect a third-party file the macros it contains without running them, how it is protected, readiness for archival PDF/A macros, protection, compatibility

The full maps — what SumDoc can do with a document and the map next to Excel.

§ 05 · the agent

An AI assistant that “knows how to work with Excel” usually clicks around the interface or writes to the file behind the editor’s back. Then nobody knows what exactly changed, and it can’t be undone in one move.

Here the agent takes the same path as a person: the same actions, the same edit history, the same save.

  1. looked
  2. made a plan
  3. showed the exact changes
  4. waited for permission
  5. applied as a whole
  6. verified

A refusal arrives before the file changes, and what was applied is undone in one action—not cell by cell, but all at once. Details—VBA, Power Query and agents.

§ 06 · origins

In 1985 Excel showed that complex calculations could become part of everyday work. Word and Excel taught whole industries to work with documents, and business still runs on these formats — including your contracts and estimates.

We do not want to cross out that path. We want the work it made possible to continue where Office itself cannot be: inside someone else’s application, on a server, in an automated process.

Your system used to be embedded into Excel. Now the Excel class is embedded into your system.

§ 07 · why it is fast

Why the assistant gets it done in half an hour

Section titled “Why the assistant gets it done in half an hour”

Documents have 41 commands, spreadsheets have 208 operations, of which 206 are accepted by the core of the latest release. Each of these numbers is taken from installed builds, not copied from plans, and is checked twice: on our side against the products’ source code, and when the site is published against lists taken from the delivery itself. If even one diverges, the site isn’t published.

That’s why the assistant gets it done in half an hour: it reads not marketing but a description that matches the program.

Documentation assistant

Answers are assembled from the documentation and may be inaccurate — check the sources.