---
title: "Working with Electronic Documents"
slug: "working-with-electronic-documents"
tags: ["laserfiche", "Staff"]
status: "new"
updated: 2021-12-28T09:11:11Z
published: 2021-12-28T09:11:11Z
canonical: "it.ajman.ac.ae/working-with-electronic-documents"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Working with Electronic Documents

Any document which contains a file other than a TIFF image or a text page is an electronic document. For instance, if you imported a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet into Laserfiche, it would be an electronic document. Electronic documents can be opened in their native applications directly from the Laserfiche repository. For instance, you could open a Word document from Laserfiche, and Microsoft Word would launch and open the document.

Electronic documents are represented by their native file format icons – for instance, an Adobe PDF file in Laserfiche will use the same icon that it would in Windows Explorer. This allows you to quickly determine at a glance what type of file you are opening.

In this category you will learn about:

- [Opening electronic documents](https://it.ajman.ac.ae//v1/docs/opening-electronic-documents)
- [Modifying electronic documents](https://it.ajman.ac.ae//v1/docs/modifying-electronic-documents)