Learn how to open and edit Word document without Word. Convert to PDF, open in Google Docs and Dropbox, use browser to open, etc.

Microsoft 365 is the de facto option. But if you just need to open, edit, and create basic documents, you don’t have to spend anything.

Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting to choose whether to open files in the online or desktop app, giving you full control for each file.

Reader Jim Harper feels like Word 2008 has severed his ties with the past. He writes: I’m running Tiger and when I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008 from Office 2004 I cannot open Word files ...

Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will now save new files to OneDrive or preferred cloud storage automatically.

Close Word Double-click the damaged Word document to open it. Word will open the problematic document in draft mode and use the draft font instead of the document’s font.

Open file with text recovery converter on Word (2019/2021) Actually, users using Word 2019 and 2021 versions enjoy the Open and Repair option to fix Word corruption issues.