Apple - Is there a quick, free viewer for Word docs?

Try Bean.

The last time I tried it, it was pretty quick (quicker than OpenOffice) and according to the website, can open .docx files.


Here's an interesting solution I've never seen before. Apparently a .docx is just an .xml file (which I've heard, but never actually investigated lol).

  • Change the .docx extension to .zip
  • Unzip the file. You'll get an .xml
  • Open and read the resulting .xml

Preview.app and TextEdit.app can both open .doc(x) files. While they may not handle intricate formatting, I have found they will do a decent job with 99% of the Word files that I receive.

For more advanced documents, Pages remains the best answer, and it's now free for effectively everyone.

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