Softkhazana - How to preview the Word documents without opening?

In Microsoft Word, you can preview the document list within Word without having to open the document. This tip is very useful, if you have many word files and are not sure which file contain the information that you need. Almost all versions of Word support this feature to view all word file as preview one by one.

Follow the given steps to preview the word document without having to open the document:

First click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Word to run the word application.

Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open any word file. Here a small dialog will appear with title "Open".

Now on the right hand side of the toolbar click the down arrow on Views and choose Preview.

This will open the preview pane.  Click on any file on the left hand side and preview what inside the file.  When you find the file you need just click Open button to open the file.