Comments on: DocPreview – browser plug-in to view Microsoft Word documents in Safari

By: JW

JW — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:37:48 +0000

Just downloaded & installed it under 10.6 with safari 5 all up to date as of today and it worked for me. if all you want to do is preview it works perfectly on docs I’ve tried so far.

By: yiming

yiming — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:50:17 +0000

You don’t need this plugin if you have Windows XP. Just install MS Office and use Internet Explorer, which comes with an ActiveX extension. Use these instructions from Microsoft to make sure it’s set up correctly. It works not only for .doc files, but pretty much all Office documents.

Only us Mac people have to deal with not being able to open Office files in our browsers

By: Asif

Asif — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:24:47 +0000

Does this plugin works on windows xp too?

By: Aaron Katz

Aaron Katz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:01:25 +0000

This is a fantastic plugin! Life is soo much easier now when dealing with accessing coursework online.

By: HB from France

HB from France — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:13:52 +0000

Very smart utility, works correctly, I dont loose any more time in opening word to preview reports from our intranet patients database.

Thanks a lot.

It deserves to be in versiontracker, it was a bit difficult to find this with google.

HB, MD

By: yiming

yiming — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:40:23 +0000

Yep, definitely a simple little hack – not much more than a basic preview, so treat it as much. More advanced parsing, as much as I would love to have that too, needs someone with a lot more knowledge of .doc file formats.

Thanks, guys. Now at least I know other people managed to get this thing working.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:15:22 +0000

Basic Doc preview, but works to open the doc in the browser. Good work!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:11:00 +0000

it works for me. so at least you have one more data point. why not post it to macupdate or versiontracker? might get you more traffic.