Is it possible to launch Word 365 in a browser from a web app to edit documents regardless whether the user has an office 365 license?

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My local school allows me to log in to their online portal and access an email account using Outlook 365 within the browser, despite the fact I do not have a license for outlook/office 365.

Is it possible to create a web application where users of this app could click a link to edit a document directly in their browser using Word 365, with us/the developers of such app being the licensee of Word and not the end-user? The remote document would be held in a Sharepoint/Webdav capable service.

If this is possible, which MS-technologies should we investigate to develop such a system? Is it the MS-Graph API or something else?

A pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Please share the code which you have already tried and point out specific parts of the code where you are having problems – Ankur Aggarwal
haven't tried any code yet as I'm asking a concept question and the answer is vital to whether to use those API's or not – Akram Esg

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You can use the Graph to create a sharing link to a document. But the user will have to sign in to view the document I believe. I'm not sure what licensing they need but you can try this with your users to see.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-createlink?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

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You can use the Google Docs API to work with documents stored in Google Drive. If you are using Java there is a "Quickstart" at the following link:

https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/java