05 / SEE THE SOURCE

Original-file viewers

How the workspace keeps document context beside the conversation.

Citely reader displaying a source beside a document conversation. — Conversation and source remain in one workspace.Sample documents · Select image to enlarge ↗

A spreadsheet is more than text. — Day 5 Problem poster from Citely’s Building in Public series. — Day 5 / ProblemA spreadsheet is more than text.Open full-size poster ↗

Different formats. Different source locations. — Day 5 Mechanism poster from Citely’s Building in Public series. — Day 5 / MechanismDifferent formats. Different source locations.Open full-size poster ↗

Keep the structure. Keep the context. — Day 5 Takeaway poster from Citely’s Building in Public series. — Day 5 / TakeawayKeep the structure. Keep the context.Open full-size poster ↗

Reader selection

The workspace chooses a viewer from the document type. PDF and extracted-page content use page navigation; DOCX, XLSX and PPTX have browser readers designed to preserve more of the original structure.

Office documents

DOCX rendering uses docx-preview. Spreadsheet viewing uses SheetJS Community for workbook data and AG Grid Community for a virtualized grid. PowerPoint rendering uses pptx-renderer. Citely adds its own citation targeting and selection behavior around these libraries.

Known fidelity boundaries

Browser readers do not reproduce every desktop-office behavior. Spreadsheet charts are not rendered, uncached formula results may be unavailable and complex layout can differ. The original file remains the authority when visual fidelity matters.

Version-safe navigation

A citation or manual annotation is applied only when its document and extraction version match the open source. A stale or unresolved target is reported rather than painted onto an unrelated page or cell.

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