View Documents, Photos, or Videos

With File Station, you can view documents, videos or photos easily.

To switch the way items are displayed:

You can switch between list view and icon view to change the way items are displayed in the main area. Click the List View button at the top-right corner to arrange files into a list or click the Icon View button to display them in accompanying icons and text.

You will see thumbnails of photos in icon view under the following conditions:

To view files using Synology Office:

  1. Make sure you have installed Synology Office on your Synology NAS.
  2. In File Station, right-click the file you want to open and choose View > View in Office.
  3. To edit the file in Synology Office, click Import to Office and the file will be opened in Synology Office as a new file.

Importing files saved in File Station to Synology Office allows you to edit the files directly with the built-in features in Synology Office and collaborate with others easily.

Supported formats:

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To view documents in Microsoft Office Online:

Simply right-click the document you want to open and choose View > View in Microsoft Office Online.

By using Microsoft Office Viewer to view Microsoft Office documents hosted on your Synology NAS device, you can access these documents with Microsoft Office features intact in a web browser without the need to have Microsoft Office installed on your computer.

Supported formats:

Microsoft Office Viewer supports the following formats:

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To view documents in Google docs:

Simply right-click the document you want to open and choose View > View in Google docs.

Supported formats:

Google docs Viewer supports the following formats: doc, docx, ppt, xlsx, pdf, tif

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To preview photos:

  1. Right-click a photo and choose Preview to open the Photo Viewer window.
  2. Hover your mouse over the bottom of Photo Viewer to reveal the thumbnail sliding bar for quick navigation.

Supported formats:

Photo Viewer supports the following formats: jpg, jpeg, jpe, bmp, gif, png, tiff, tif, arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, 3fr, erf, mos, orf, rw2, raw

To play (preview) sound files:

Supported formats:

Audio Player supports the following formats:

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To play videos:

  1. Right-click a video and choose Play to open the Video Player window.
  2. The video should start playing right away. If not, please make sure you have installed VLC Player (Windows) on your local computer.
  3. Note:

  4. If you have a subtitle file with the same name and in the same folder as the video, or your video contains embedded subtitles, you should be able to see the subtitle during video playback. If you want to use another subtitle, choose it from the drop-down menu.

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* Unavailable on certain models.