Here are all the ways to access Microsoft Word and almost all of them are free. Word Mobile Platforms: Windows 8, 10 Price: Free For a long time, Microsoft offered a free program called Word Viewer to open any DOCX file without paying for the full version of Office. But, this was retired a few years back.
What you have instead is the new Word Mobile. Word Mobile can be installed on any Windows laptop, desktop, tablet, or phone. But if you install it on a desktop, laptop, or a large tablet, you can’t create nor edit files with the app.
You can only open documents and read them. To grab the app, head to the Microsoft Store and search for Word Mobile.
Otherwise, click the link below to open it in a browser tab, and then the Download button to open it in Microsoft Store on your Windows computer. Proceed to download it like any app. Download: Word Mobile for Have you ever received one of those files with the.docx extension and wondered what to do with it? It can't be viewed in older Word versions, so how can you open a.docx file.