Quick Look gives you a nice window version of that. If I'm viewing say in Column View I'll see the Preview here on the right side. Now at the same time you could also go in the Finder, I'm going to create a new Finder window here, and go to Desktop and there's the word doc. But if there's just basic information, and there are plenty of times when we get like three paragraphs of plain text in a Microsoft Word document, why they didn't just include this in the email as text I don't know, but it comes in Microsoft Word format and you can read it here using just Quick Look. That's just selecting the file and hitting the spacebar. Well, the first way I could view this is just by simply using Quick Look. I do have Microsoft Word so this is what it looks like in Microsoft Word. The first one is a pretty simple text document. But you can still view word documents and even edit them on your Mac with some software that comes installed on your Mac already or is just free. Even some people on Windows don't have Microsoft Word. People assume because their computer came with Microsoft Word or they got it a long time ago that everybody has Microsoft Word. You get docs from teachers and parents at schools. Sometimes people just don't get that this is not a universal format. Video Transcript: So from time to time you may get a document in Microsoft Word format. Hopefully, people will find this helpful.Check out Opening Microsoft Word Documents On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. There are instructions on syncing OneDrive to Mac at this link. Īlternatively, if the student would like to save themselves the step of saving files directly to their computer, they can add a link to OneDrive directly on their computer. Once the file is saved on the computer, the student can submit it by following the instructions in this article. I typically recommend either the desktop or the documents folder since they are easiest to locate, but as long as the student knows how to find that file location, anywhere on the computer will work. The easiest option is for the student to open the file, click save as, and then save it to a location on their computer. Usually, if the student cannot find the file on their Mac, it is because the file is saved on OneDrive, and the student doesn't have a link to their OneDrive in Finder. I know this post is quite old, but I was helping a student with this issue today and wanted to share my knowledge.

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