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How to preview word documents without opening

Hi everybody, here is a small tip which will help you to preview the contents of a word document file without opening it. If you have many word files and not sure which file contains the required then this tip will make your work easy. Almost all the versions of MS-word support this feature.

Follow the below steps which is explained with screenshots :

  1. Firstly click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Word to run the word application.
  2. Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open any word file. Here a small dialog will appear with title “Open
  3. Now on the right hand side of the toolbar click the down arrow on Views and choose Preview.
  4. This will open the preview pane.  Click on any file on the left hand side and preview what inside the file.  When you find the file you need just click Open button to open the file.

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