Linux DOCX *viewer*?

Gilles Gravier ggravier at fsfe.org
Mon Sep 23 18:57:38 UTC 2024


Hi!

On 23/09/2024 20:52, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is there a lightweight linux program that can *view* .docx files? I have no
> interest in *editing* such a file. (Yes, I could install libroffice, but
> that is a huge package that I don't have any actual use for.) I from time to
> time get .docx files that I need to read, but can't just directly view them. I
> generally run them through pandoc to convert to pdf and then view the pdf file
> with xpdf, but this seems wasteful (of my time and disk space).

If you have a Gmail account, then you can open them in Google Docs... 
and that doesn't require anything else beyond the browser you probably 
have installed, and a network connexion...

Gilles




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