LifeClever ;-) » Word http://www.lifeclever.com How to live and work as a designer Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:51:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Instantly open Word docs with TextEdit http://www.lifeclever.com/instantly-open-word-docs-with-textedit/ http://www.lifeclever.com/instantly-open-word-docs-with-textedit/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:19:14 +0000 Chanpory Rith http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/12/16/instantly-open-word-docs-with-textedit/ TextEdit and Word DocumentJust by accident, I discovered TextEdit’s forgotten superpower to open and edit Word docs. Just drag any Word document onto TextEdit, and it opens instantly. Barely a wait. Not even a splash screen.

If you’re sick of waiting for Word’s one-billion toolbars and useless features to load, this is a step closer to escaping the clenches of Bill Gates.

Best of all, TextEdit is free and comes with every Mac. If you have a PC, the closest free app like this is Jarte. It ain’t pretty, but it’ll open and save Word docs (Word 95 format only).

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