Quick Look gives you a nice window version of that. If I'm viewing say in Column View I'll see the Preview here on the right side. Now at the same time you could also go in the Finder, I'm going to create a new Finder window here, and go to Desktop and there's the word doc. But if there's just basic information, and there are plenty of times when we get like three paragraphs of plain text in a Microsoft Word document, why they didn't just include this in the email as text I don't know, but it comes in Microsoft Word format and you can read it here using just Quick Look. That's just selecting the file and hitting the spacebar.

Well, the first way I could view this is just by simply using Quick Look. I do have Microsoft Word so this is what it looks like in Microsoft Word. The first one is a pretty simple text document. But you can still view word documents and even edit them on your Mac with some software that comes installed on your Mac already or is just free. Even some people on Windows don't have Microsoft Word. People assume because their computer came with Microsoft Word or they got it a long time ago that everybody has Microsoft Word. You get docs from teachers and parents at schools. Sometimes people just don't get that this is not a universal format. Video Transcript: So from time to time you may get a document in Microsoft Word format.

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