Viewing MS Office Doc's

[Naim135]

I have a user who uses an iPad and also iMac and MacBook Pro, on their iPad they can view attached MS office Doc's and PDF's etc with built in convertors I was wondering if it would be possible for the same in native OS X i.e without having to install office or equivalent as the user only views the attachments

 

[Hellhammer]

There is preview button in Mail I think, have you tried that? PDFs can be viewed in Preview app.

 

[GGJstudios]

You can view Excel and Word documents in Google Docs. You can also use Quick Look to view some Word and Excel formats.

 

[SDub90]

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I think you'll need openoffice(or neopffice), iWork, or msoffice to preview office documents. I'm sure there are more options as well.

Edit: google dogs is also a good one, I use it everyday, I don't know why I didn't think of that. However, you may lose some formatting and charts with it.

 

[Naim135]

I have a user who uses an iPad and also iMac and MacBook Pro, on their iPad they can view attached MS office Doc's and PDF's etc with built in convertors I was wondering if it would be possible for the same in native OS X i.e without having to install office or equivalent as the user only views the attachments

Thanks for the posts. Am I right in thinking in IOS the document is converted to a PDF before it is displayed, if so does anyone know if a similar option is available in OS X? I don't want to have to install any sort of Office if poss.