Linux DOCX *viewer*?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a lightweight linux program that can *view* .docx files? I have no
> interest in *editing* such a file. (Yes, I could install libroffice, but
> that is a huge package that I don't have any actual use for.) I from time to
> time get .docx files that I need to read, but can't just directly view them. I
> generally run them through pandoc to convert to pdf and then view the pdf file
> with xpdf, but this seems wasteful (of my time and disk space).
>
A quick web search turns up docx2txt
(http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/) and pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) as
possibilities. There's also AbiWord.

I've never tried any of those (well, no AbiWord in years...).

Personally I prefer LibreOffice - I use it all the time. YMMV.

MRZ