Open legacy Word (.doc)
Extracts the body text of Word 97-2003 .doc files. Formatting is not preserved.
Drop a folder or files here
JPG · PNG · WebP · GIF · BMP · AVIF · SVG · HEIC · PSD · AI · TIFF · camera RAW · PDF · HWP · Word · PPT · Excel · DWG/DXF · MP4/WebM/MOV/MKV/AVI/WMV · MP3/WAV/WMA/AIFF · TXT/MD/CSV/JSON/HTML — subfolders included
This browser doesn't support the folder-open dialog, so the standard folder picker is used. Files are read only on your device.
Viewer pages by format
Popular formats have their own page. Whichever page you are on, files of any other supported format open just the same.
- View HEIC photosHEIC·HEIF·HIF
- View PSD filesPSD·PSB
- View AI filesAI
- View TIFF filesTIF·TIFF
- View camera RAW photosCR2·CR3·CRW·NEF…
- Play MKVMKV
- Play AVI and DivXAVI·DIVX
- Play RMVB and RMRM·RMVB
- Play WMVWMV·ASF
- Play FLVFLV
- Play TS and M2TSTS·M2TS·MTS
- Play WMAWMA
- Play APE and lossless audioAPE·WV·TTA·MPC
- Open EML and MSG emailEML·MSG
- Read EPUB ebooksEPUB
- View Jupyter notebooks (ipynb)IPYNB
- Open legacy Word (.doc)DOC
- View DICOM medical imagesDCM·DICOM·DIC
- View STL and OBJ 3D modelsSTL·OBJ
- Open ZIP and TAR archivesZIP·TAR·TGZ·GZ…
- Read CBZ comicsCBZ
- View certificate files (PEM, CRT, CER, DER)PEM·CRT·CER·DER…
- View SRT and SMI subtitlesSRT·VTT·SMI·SAMI…
- Preview font files (TTF, OTF, WOFF)TTF·OTF·WOFF·WOFF2…
Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HWP, and CAD have their own document viewer pages. Full file viewer →
Word 97-2003 format (.doc) is binary and has no browser renderer. This page extracts just the body text of a .doc — tables, images, and font formatting aren't preserved, but it's enough to see what a document is and copy its text. Useful when sorting an old document folder.
How to use it
- 1Click 'Choose DOC files' or drop a document folder onto the page.
- 2Click a document and the body appears with a 'Text only' badge. Paragraph breaks are kept.
- 3When you need formatting, save as .docx from Word and open it in the Word Viewer from the related tools.
What it shows
The FIB is read from the WordDocument stream inside the compound file (CFB), and the CLX piece table in 0Table/1Table is followed to rebuild the body text in order. Unicode and CP1252 pieces are both handled, and Word 6/95 files without a piece table fall back to the plain text region. RTF is handled on the same page by stripping formatting tags.
Files are read inside the browser only and never sent anywhere. Close the tab and nothing remains.
Limits
Table cells run together as lines; images, shapes, headers/footers, and footnotes are absent. No fonts, sizes, or bold. Password-protected .doc files won't open. Legacy PowerPoint .ppt isn't supported.
Good for
Finding the right document in an old .doc folder, checking content on a PC without Word, and copying text from old documents into new ones.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see it with formatting?+
There's no browser renderer for this format. Save as .docx from Word or LibreOffice and the Word Viewer shows it formatted and lets you edit.
The text looks garbled.+
Very old Word (before 5.0) or documents with unusual code pages can rebuild incorrectly. Opening and re-saving in Word usually fixes it.
Can I convert to PDF?+
For text only, 🖨 print → Save as PDF works. For a formatted PDF, save as .docx from Word and use the Word Viewer's PDF export.
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