Depending your business or blog type sometimes it becomes necessary to embed PDF, spreadsheets or MS Office files on your WordPress posts or pages and make it available for others to download.

Let us look at the easier option to embed PDF, MS Office on WordPress posts, all you need is a plugin called Google Doc Embedder which will let you embed embed PDF, MS Office on WordPress posts easily.

Once the plug-in is successfully installed and activated in WordPress, you will get the Google Doc Embedder option on your WordPress admin panel.

Google Doc Embedder

you can embed your document into either a page or a post using the syntax below

[gview file="http://full-path.to/file.pdf"]

Google Doc Embedder lets you embed several types of files into your WordPress pages using the Google Docs Viewer, following file types are supported by Google Doc Embedder

• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
• Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX*)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX*)
• Microsoft Excel (XLS/XLSX*)
• TIFF Images (TIF, TIFF)
• Apple Pages (PAGES)
• Adobe Illustrator (AI)
• Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
• Autodesk AutoCad (DXF)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• PostScript (EPS/PS)
• OpenType/TrueType Fonts (OTF, TTF)
• XML Paper Specification (XPS)
• Archive Files (ZIP/RAR)

If you want to know more about the settings of Google Doc Embedder follow this article.