How to open a .doc or .docx document without having Word

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Word is undoubtedly one of the most used tools within the office suite of Microsoft, Office. And that is that every day, there are many millions of people who use Word to create or modify documents. However, Office and consequently Word, is a payment tool, since in order to install and start using Office on our computer, we must buy a license. This makes many other people look for free alternatives to Word to work with their documents. The problem is that, since the vast majority use Word, they may send us a doc or docx document at some point and we can not open it without using Microsoft Word. Next, we will show how we can open a doc or docx without Word.

Another quite probable situation is to receive a Word document by email and not have Word installed on that PC, therefore, in this circumstance, it is also interesting to know how we can open a doc or docx without Word.

We know that many already know all the alternatives that there are to the Office suite, but it is likely that many who have given everything installed do not know what to do when they encounter a document in Word and their license has expired or in Your new laptop does not have the Microsoft word processor. For them it is for those who go this report in the review how you can open a doc or docx even though we do not have Word in our team, including some tools and other options that do not require having to install anything.

Different tools to open a doc or docx without Word
The first option is to use the online version of Word. To do this, simply go to the Office site online and start with our Microsoft account. Once there, we have the option to open a doc or docx document that we have in our storage space in OneDrive or on our hard drive. If we have previously uploaded to OneDrive just click on the option Open from OneDrive that appears in the bottom right as soon as you enter Word online, while if we have it saved on the disk we can select it from the option Load a document that it appears at the same time in the upper right.

Another alternative to open a doc or docx document without Word is to use Google Docs, since Google's online tool is compatible with this type of files and we can open a doc or docx without Word without any problem, yes, we must support in Google Drive, since that is where we will have to have the document to be able to open it in Google Docs.

Therefore, first of all, the first thing we have to do to open a doc or docx without Word through Google Docs is to upload that file to our Google Drive account. Once there, we can go to Google Docs, log in with our Google account and then from the menu select the option Drive. This will open our Google storage service unit and then we can select the document we want to open.

Opening a doc or docx without Word from the browser is also possible with other tools such as the extension that we are going to show next. The extension in question is called Chrome Office Viewer and as its name suggests, it offers a document editor from the Google Chrome browser itself.

To start using that extension, all we have to do is follow this link to the Chrome Web Store and install Chrome Office Viewer in our browser. Once this is done, to open a doc or docx document without Word in our PC, we only have to open a window or tab of Chrome, go to the file explorer of our team, select the document that we want to open in Word, drag it to the Google Chrome tab and drop it.

Automatically we will see how the Word document is displayed in the browser and from there we can edit it, make the changes that we believe appropriate and then re-save it with the same format.

There are some free tools that are compatible with the doc and docx file formats, therefore, we can use any of them to open a doc or docx document without Word. LibreOffice is perhaps one of the most po[CENSORED]r, but there are other