Windows 7: Browse *.docx Documentation

Even if Microsoft Office 2007 is not installed, we can easily browse Word 2007 documents in *.docx format under Windows 7. From the Start menu, select “Accessories & Rarr; WordPad”Open the WordPad window, press “Ctrl+O” to open the “Open” dialog box, select “OOXML Text in the File Type drop-down list box Document (*.docx)” or “All Wordpad Documents (*.rtf,*.docx,*.odt,*.txt)”, can open the document in *.docx format very smoothly, and the browsing effect is as follows. As shown in Figure 7, unfortunately we can't browse the *.xlsx, *.pptx format in a similar way, and the *.docx document cannot be browsed under the Explorer's navigation pane.

Figure 7 Windows 7 prompt dialog