Microsoft 365 is the de facto option. But if you just need to open, edit, and create basic documents, you don’t have to spend anything.

If you want to open and edit a Word document without Word desktop application or Microsoft Word Online, here is how you can do that.

Microsoft Word or Google Docs? The decision may seem simple if you're already integrated into either service, but there are other factors to consider.

If you need to create documents with drop caps, pull quotes, columns, text that wraps around images, and similar desktop publishing elements, you can do so in Word.

How to download your Google Docs documents Downloading a Google Doc document lets you open it in desktop word processors (for example, Microsoft Word) and transfer it to physical storage mediums.

Word can now turn a conversation or meeting into text ready to use in a document, but that might not come to desktop Word for a while.

Here are different methods using which you can save a Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX) document as a JPEG image on Windows PC.