Linux DOCX *viewer*?

[Robert Heller]

And pops up a silly "Do you want to save changes..." dialog when exiting...  
Arg...

At Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:57:25 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Abiword is lightweight and seems to do the job.
> 
> P
> 
> On 23 September 2024 20:33:30 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
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