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How to open a Word document without installing Office?

More than one year has passed since the release of the office Office package for Windows, but users still have questions about this program. One of the most important ones is whether it is possible to open a document in *.doc format without installing a set of applications?

WordPad and Notepad programs, which are initially preinstalled on Windows system, not exactly the tools that could be useful when editing documents. As you probably know, none of these programs support working with documents created in the program Office Word.

In this regard, if you often download various Word documents and didn't install Microsoft Office Word on your PC, that is, several third party applications, which can help you open Word documents without any hassle or license purchases.

Options

For example, you can use the free office suite OpenOffice (or). It can also open and edit Office documents. You can open files from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the browser Google Chrome, but you need to install the extension - Chrome Office Viewer.

But, you need to understand that the list is not limited to these methods. You can even open the web version of Microsoft's tool to view and edit Word documents, provided you have a Microsoft account. In addition to this, Microsoft offers free program Word Viewer for quickly opening Word documents on a PC without Office installed.

The only problem with the Word Viewer program is the lack of support for documents created in Word 2010 and Word 2013. In other words, the utility is only compatible with *.doc files and is not able to open *.docx format. To expand functionality, you need to download and install an additional one to add support *.docx.

Note: You must manually download and install this Office Compatibility Pack after installing Word Viewer to add support for the latest extensions.

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By installing Word Viewer and the New Office Format Compatibility Pack, you can open .txt, .docx, .rtf, .docm, .htm, .html, .doc, .wpd, and .xml files.

Please note that Word Viewer will not be able to edit Word documents. It is only suitable for opening documents, printing and copying information. You will have to install Office Word or some other third party program, such as OpenOffice, for full editing of Word documents. Alternatively, you can work on the web version of Office Word.

If you need a program to open PowerPoint or Excel files, download and install similar programs from the Microsoft website.

When you try to open an Excel workbook, Word document, or PowerPoint presentation The following errors may occur in Excel, Word, or PowerPoint.

The file does not open in the required application. For example, an Excel workbook opens in a different application or more than Excel 2019. early version Excel.

You may receive an error message indicating a file association problem. For example, you may see the message There is no program associated with this file to perform this action. Install the program or, if it is already installed, create an association using the Default Programs component of Control Panel

This action is only allowed for installed products.

Help in solving the problem

Click this button to download the Easy Fix Tool and try to fix the problem.

Select your browser from the drop-down list to see instructions for saving and then running the file.

1. Save.

   In the next message window officefile.diagcab download completes click the button Open.

   Further and follow the instructions.

At the bottom of the browser window, click Open to open the file officefile.diagcab.

If the file does not open automatically, select Save > Open folder and then double-click the file (its name must start with officefile) to run the simple fix tool.

The Office File Association Wizard will launch. Click Further and follow the instructions.

Select file in the lower left corner officefile, and then select from the drop-down list Show in Folder.

Double click the downloaded file officefile to run the easy fix tool.

The Office File Association Wizard will launch. Click Further and follow the instructions.

In the upper right corner of the browser window, click Show all downloads. In the Library window, select Downloads > officefile.diagcab, and then click the folder icon. Double click the file officefile.

The Office File Association Wizard will launch. Click Further and follow the instructions.

Fast recovery to resolve file association issues

Click the "Start" button.

Note: Start > Control Panel and skip the next step.

Now select Office application, which you want to restore, and click the button Change.

Select "Quick Recovery" and click the button Restore.

For more information about the restore feature in Office, see the article Repair an Office application.

If the problem is still not resolved, try to map the files to the correct applications manually.

Manually matching files with the desired application Office

Click the "Start" button.

Note: If you have Windows 7, click Start > Control Panel and skip the next step.

Search for "Control Panel" and click the result that appears.

Select an item Default programs(If you don't see it, type "Default Programs" into the search box in the top right corner of the window and press ENTER.)

Select an item Setting default programs.

Select the Office app that isn't opening correctly and select "Set this program as default."

Click OK.

Advice: Repeat this procedure for other Office applications as needed.

If you have multiple versions of Microsoft Office installed...

You may want to remove unnecessary versions. For this:

Click the "Start" button.

Note: If you have Windows 7, click Start > Control Panel and skip the next step.

Search for "Control Panel" and click the result that appears.

Select "Uninstall a program", and then select the version of Office you want to uninstall.

Click Delete.

Restart your computer.

If you have too many versions of Office installed on your computer, it can cause problems, including causing files to open in wrong version Office.

Advice: In some cases, it's best to uninstall ALL versions of Office and then install only the one you need.

If the problem cannot be resolved...

You always have the option to open the application first and then open the file from it. For this:

Launch the program in which you want to open the document (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint).

In the program, select File > Open, and then in the file navigator, find the file and open it.

We wrote quite a lot about how to work with documents in MS Word, but we almost never touched on the topic of problems when working with it. We will look at one of the common mistakes in this article, talking about what to do if Word documents do not open. Also, below we will look at the reason why this error may occur.

So, to solve any problem, you first need to find out the cause of its occurrence, which is what we will do. An error when trying to open a file may be due to the following problems:

If the file is damaged, you will see a notification when you try to open it, as well as an option to repair it. Naturally, you need to agree to restore the file. The only problem is that there are no guarantees for correct recovery. In addition, the contents of the file may not be fully restored, but only partially.

Incorrect extension or link with another program

If the file extension is specified incorrectly or is associated with another program, the system will try to open it in the program with which it is associated. Therefore the file “Document.txt” The OS will try to open in “Notepad”, the standard extension of which is "txt".

However, due to the fact that the document is actually a Word document (DOC or DOCX), although incorrectly named, after opening it in another program it will not be displayed correctly (for example, in the same “Notepad”), or it will not be opened at all, since its original extension is not supported by the program.

Note: The icon for a document with an incorrectly specified extension will be similar to that in all files compatible with the program. In addition, the extension may be unknown to the system, or even absent altogether. Consequently, the system will not find a suitable program to open, but will offer to select it manually and find a suitable one on the Internet or app store.

There is only one solution in this case, and it is applicable only if you are sure that the document that cannot be opened is really an MS Word file in DOC or DOCX format. All that can and should be done is to rename the file, or rather its extension.

1. Click on the Word file that cannot be opened.

2. Right-click to open the context menu and select "Rename". This can be done by simply pressing a key. F2 on the selected file.

3. Remove the specified extension, leaving only the file name and a period after it.

Note: If the file extension is not displayed and you can only change its name, follow these steps:

In any folder, open a tab "View";

Click on the button there "Options" and go to the tab "View";

Find in the list "Extra options" paragraph “Hide extensions for registered file types” and uncheck it;

Click the button “Apply”.

Close the Folder Options dialog box by clicking "OK".

4. Enter after the file name and a period "DOC"(if you have Word 2003 installed on your PC) or "DOCX"(if you have more than a new version Word).

5. Confirm the changes.

6. The file extension will be changed, and its icon will also change, which will take the form of a standard Word document. Now the document can be opened in Word.

In addition, a file with an incorrectly specified extension can be opened through the program itself, and it is not necessary to change the extension.

1. Open a blank (or any other) MS Word document.

2. Press the button "File" located on the control panel (previously the button was called "MS Office").

3. Select an item "Open", and then "Review" to open the window “Conductor” to search for a file.

4. Browse to the folder containing the file you are having trouble opening, select it and click "Open".

Advice: If the file is not displayed, select the option "All files *.*", located at the bottom of the window.

5. The file will be opened in a new program window.

The extension is not registered in the system

This problem only occurs on older Windows versions, which from ordinary users Now hardly anyone uses it at all. These include Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, 2000, Millenium and Windows Vista. The solution to the problem with opening MS Word files for all these OS versions is approximately the same:

1. Open "My computer".

2. Go to the tab "Service"(Windows 2000, Millenium) or "View"(98, NT) and open the “Options” section.

3. Open a tab “File Type” and establish an association between the DOC and/or DOCX formats and Microsoft program Office Word.

4. Word file extensions will be registered in the system, therefore, documents will open normally in the program.

That's all, now you know why an error occurs in Word when you try to open a file and how you can fix it. We wish you no longer encounter difficulties and errors in the operation of this program.

At first, the question of how to open a word file may seem stupid, of course, with the Microsoft Office program. Only at the beginning, if you penetrate deeper, it turns out that everything is not so elementary.

First, there may be as many as four Word files (documents): 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and that’s not all. They can be in dos and dosx format (the latter document is much more difficult to open).

If you have Office 2013 installed, then there is nothing to say about how to open a Word file. It’s another matter if you have 2003, and the document, for example, is from 2013, then the opening may not work. What then to use?

To avoid stress once again, use the universal method: download and install the “FileFormat Converter” program and use it to convert documents into the format you need and open them calmly.

How to open a word 2007 file

Today, Word 2007 is most used, so I chose it as an example. Word documents of this type, like others, can be in DOS and DOSX format.

If you have the first option, but don’t have Word (it’s paid and costs a lot), there are free analogues, for example OpenOffice or Libre offce - download, install and use - everything is free.

How to open a damaged Word file

It's a completely different matter if your word file turns out to be damaged. What to do then, how to open it? In order not to combine for a long time, it is best to restore a damaged Word document using the Recovery Toolbox for Word program specially created for this purpose.

You can, of course, try to recover the damaged file standard means Word programs (often solves the problem), but if there is Internet then better program, it is small and capable of correcting doc, docx, dot, dotx and rtf formats.

However, you can do it differently - use free utility WordRepair. You don't even need to install it. Launch it, point it to the damaged word document and press the “Repair/Open” button.

As far as I remember, there is another program for fixing it, I think it’s called “Word fix tool”. I haven't used it - you can experiment. That's all. Good luck.

In the last lesson we looked at how to select text in Microsoft Word.

Now we will talk about how to open a previously saved document. If you have already closed Microsoft Word or simply turned off your computer for a while, then you need to open the document again to continue working with it.

If you have Word 2007, then you need to click on the round office button in the upper left corner of Microsoft Word, and in Word 2010, click on the file tab in the upper left corner of Word.

If after this step you see your file appearing under the Recent Documents heading, then you can click on it right here to open it. However, if it is not in the list, then select Open from the menu.

A dialog box will appear. You can see how it looks in the figure below.

The dialog box that opens is very reminiscent of the familiar Save As dialog box. Please note that the File name field is empty. If your document is not visible in the “Documents” section of the Library, then click in the field where it says All Word Documents. Then you will see a drop-down list of all file types that can be opened using Microsoft Word.

This is approximately the same list that you already saw earlier in the Save As dialog box in the File type field. So, if your file didn't appear previously, be sure to check to see if it's in this list.

In this case, the File name field remains empty, since the file was not selected. The file we need is searched among the files in this drop-down list. When it is detected, you need to click on it with the left mouse button, then our file will be selected.

We see that the file we are looking for is displayed in the picture above. If it is not displayed, then you can go to the top of the dialog box and try to look for the file in other folders. Click on Documents to view another drop-down list.

The list displays all the folders that are contained in the Documents folder. Select any folder by clicking on it to get inside.

You can view other fields of the dialog box, for example, by clicking on the double arrows to the left of the Documents entry (see the figure above), as a result you will again receive a new drop-down list.

Again, if you click on any item from the list, you will be taken inside a new folder and get new list documents. Try this and you will see how it changes again appearance dialog box. You can go back in two ways. The first is to use previously dropdown lists. The second is to click on the arrow button immediately to the left of the list.

Clicking one of the arrows located directly below the word Open will take you back one folder or forward. If you are completely lost, click the Cancel button located at the bottom of the open dialog box, and then start again.

To select a file from the list, click on it once with the left mouse button. Its name will appear in the File name field at the bottom of the dialog box. Once this happens, click the Open button.

In the next lesson, we'll look at